cex in Windows vs. Linux

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[mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Paul Murrell
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 9:12 PM

Hi

Andrew Schuh wrote:

I go back and forth from Linux to Windoze often and have to run the 
same r-scripts.  I was wondering why it seems like the default 
plotting size of labels, symbols, titles, etc seem smaller in Linux 
than in Windows.  Is there a quick way to remedy this so I 

don't have 

to manually change the cex settings from 1 to 1.3 every 

time I go from 

Windoze to Linux?

I think part of the problem is that the font used on the X11 
device is Helvetica and the default font for Windows is 
Arial.  The default point size is 12 in both cases, but just 
because two fonts have the same nominal point size does not 
mean that they physically are the same size. It should 
theoretically be possible to set yourself up with either 
Helvetica on Windows or Arial on Linux, but I don't know of a 
(free) source for such fonts.

Paul