/minus or /hyphen in PS output
1) You used the wrong list. Please see the posting guide. 2) They used /minus because they wanted minus not hyphen. R uses Latin1 and not standard encoding, and /minus is in Latin1. I think the fonts you are using are not Latin1 fonts, as all the afms supplied with R support /minus. If you look at the output with your patch, it uses hyphen for negative numbers, extremely poor typography (the sort of thing that you get from Word!). 3) // is invalid in C code, and your patch will not compile on some systems which R supports. There is perhaps a way around fonts which are missing /minus, but we want /minus if available. Perhaps you would like to work on a more careful analysis and patch? One that does not break standard usage?
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, M.Kondrin wrote:
Dear R devolepers! Wouldn't you change src/main/devPS.c file (patch will follow). Problem is with minus sign in ps output. The original code forces the name /minus to the character number 45 (-). But /minus symbol is not defined in standard Adobe encoding and (even worse) is not defined in most type1 fonts (where the name /hyphen is used instead), in this case you will have an empty space instead of -. Redefining encoding for this fonts does not help because encoding vector in ps output got "corrected" and /hyphen (or any other name I have selected for 45'th character) is replaced with /minus. I have tried this patch and it works for me. ------------------------------------------------ 449,450c449 < // if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else < strcpy(dest, state->p0); ---
> if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else strcpy(dest, state->p0);
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