From p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz  Mon Nov 11 23:58:32 2002
From: p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:58:32 +1300
Subject: strwidth(font=NULL)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0211082220400.12649-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <3DD04428.904A7C3@stat.auckland.ac.nz>

Hi


ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> If you look in the code you will see this is mentioned as a if/when
> possibility in several places.
> 
> See also bug report PR#776, from December 2000, so this is probably in the
> Real Soon Now category.  Paul Murrell might have a better estimate!


I am half way through a change to R's font specification 
(see http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/fonts.html
and http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/paul-todo.html)
which will eventually filter down to R-code, including this change.

(unfortunately, I cannot give an estimate any more accurate than Brian's
at this stage)

Paul


> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, David Brahm wrote:
> 
> >    Would it be possible to give strwidth() and strheight() an argument "font",
> > that worked like the "cex" argument (i.e. defaults to current par("font"), but
> > can be overridden)?  Then I could replace this:
> >
> >   R> oldpar <- par(font=2)
> >   R> x <- strwidth("hello")
> >   R> par(oldpar)
> >
> > with this:
> >
> >   R> x <- strwidth("hello", font=2)
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
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strwidth(font=NULL)
Paul Murrell