ASCII character set and hyphen
Am 19.11.2007 um 18:43 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley:
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote:
Hi all!
To add to my previous posting
I want to give some more deatils give a more precise
I want to print a hyphen to a pdf() or postscript() device.
As the documentaion of postscript says
ASCII Character 45("-") is mapped to a minus sign (ASCII Character
95) by default.
The advice given is to use "\173" for a hyphen.
But, the following code produces a curly brace
instead of a hyphen.
Thanks for any advice?
Check your reading before posting? The advice actually is
There is an exception. Character 45 ('"-"') is always set as
minus (its value in Adobe ISOLatin1) even though it is hyphen in
the other encodings. Hyphen is available as character 173 (octal
0255) in all the Latin encodings, Cyrillic and Greek.
Sorry, I missed to honour the octal coding.
So try "\255". And please don't post twice.
I tried that, bit it raised an error
pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1")
display.ascii.d()
mtext("\255", side = 3)
dev.off()
Warning messages:
1: In mtext("\xad", side = 3) : ung?ltige Eingabe f?r mbcsToLatin1
Roland
library(rgr)
pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1")
display.ascii.d()
mtext("\173", side = 3)
dev.off()
R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
locale:
de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/C/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] rgr_1.0.3 MASS_7.2-36 akima_0.5-1
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