From ben@eno.Princeton.EDU  Mon Sep  8 15:36:24 1997
From: ben@eno.Princeton.EDU (Ben Bolker)
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 10:36:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: R-alpha: Re: lwd, cex and par(.) issues [was "... windows quirks .."]
In-Reply-To: <199709081421.QAA00979@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970908103318.15321A-100000@paca>


  I agree with the gist of the discussion here ("par(lwd)" to change lwd
globally, otherwise it just affects lines).  One detail worth thinking
about is that a global linewidth change in PostScript (setlinewidth) will
also affect the linewidths used, e.g., in drawing plotting characters
(which could get very ugly as a result).

  I'm glad to see folks are working on lwd; in my (alpha-2) version of R
linewidth is mostly not implemented, and I was wondering whether I should
dig in and work on it or whether I should wait 'til the prophesied Big
Changes in the graphics code happened and the dust settled ...  (For now,
I've just been hacking the postscript _post facto_.)

Benjamin Bolker          Dep't of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
ben@eno.princeton.edu    Princeton University
tel: (609) 258-6886,     fax: (609) 258-1334

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R-alpha: Re: lwd, cex and par(.) issues [was "... windows quirks .."]
Ben Bolker