From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Mon Feb 14 16:25:57 2000
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:25:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] More plotting comments
In-Reply-To: <200002141042.KAA02563@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002141624320.26488-100000@gimel.biostat.washington.edu>

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:23:23 +1100
> > From: Telford Tendys <telford@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
> > To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: [Rd] More plotting comments
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Finally, when I do a plot like this:
> > 
> > 	curve( sin, lty="12345678" )
> > 
> > I get a reasonable looking curved line on my X11 window but then I
> > do the same thing in postscript I get the interesting result that the
> > dashes are very tiny when viewed in ghostscript (5.10) but sensible
> > length on paper from the printer. Is this a ghostscript bug or is there
> > something non-portable about R output files?
> 
> It looks fine here with ghostscript 6.0.  5.10 is rather old (yes,
> I know it is the current GPL version).
> 

It's fine here with 5.10 

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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[Rd] More plotting comments
Thomas Lumley