From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Apr 25 18:55:47 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 18:55:47 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
Subject: [Rd] Re: identify.default ignores any setting of cex (PR#660)
In-Reply-To: <200104251524.RAA02124@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.31.0104251852500.300-100000@tern.stats>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> A follow-up to PR#660 (15 Sep 2000) from Brian Ripley:

[...]

> The same with
>
>  par(cex=1); plot(1:10); text(4, 5, "Hello World") # OK
>  par(cex=2); plot(1:10); text(4, 5, "Hello World") # OK
>  par(cex=2); plot(1:10); text(4, 5, "Hello World", cex = 1) # NOT OK
>  par(cex=2); plot(1:10); text(4, 5, "Hello World", cex = 0.5)
>
> So the scaling with cex in text() is relative to the par() settings,
> which is not the expected behaviour.

It is the documented behaviour, though: see the description of cex in
?help.

     cex: numeric character expansion factor; multiplied by
          `par("cex")' yields the final character size.

Brian

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[Rd] Re: identify.default ignores any setting of cex (PR#660)
Prof Brian D Ripley