From pdalgd at gmail.com  Thu Aug 19 10:21:01 2010
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (peter dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:21:01 +0200
Subject: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output
In-Reply-To: <C892B4AE.10F0F%jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
References: <C892B4AE.10F0F%jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>
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On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:


> 
> The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points);
> TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with the default device
> (quartz), nor with the default X11() which has type = 'Xlib' (unlike
> documented in ?X11: 'cairo' is available but 'Xlib' still used).
> 
> What ever this is worth of (if this is worthless, I'll surely hear about
> it).

Well, maybe not worthless, but the X11 setup on Mac is poor in general. type="Xlib" appears plainly not to work, and even disregarding the pi issue, the rotated y-axis labels come out pretty ugly. This is why quartz is now the default on OSX. 

BTW, it seems that the standard X11 "Symbol","Regular" font is simply absent on OSX. I can't get fc-match to list it, anyway.

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[Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output
peter dalgaard