Latin 2 encoding + fonts
Hi
Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Miha STAUT wrote:
Hi, In the FAQ I read about options to specify different fonts than the default ones for the console (in the file Rprofile) and for the graphical output (Rdevga). I would however like to replace Latin 1 with Latin 2 enconding for both (console and graphical) output in Windows and just graphical output in Linux.
You are confusing fonts with encodings. Windows does not use either Latin 1 or Latin 2, and R for Windows does not encode for the console or the graphical device. Just use the Windows version of a ISO-8859-2 locale and a font supported by your locale (almost all under NT, fewer under Win9x).
I guess it is possible but I did not find the way. How can I use the fonts (*.afm) and the (presumably) encondings (*.enc) in R/rw1081/afm? How do I know what are the real font names. Are those only the ones listed in the man page for Hershey?
This is nothing to do with Hershey. All the information you need is on the help page for postscript().
And in case you're interested in the grubby details ... The files in R/rw1081/afm are used for PostScript and PDF output (the *.afm are font metric files used for determining characters sizes, espectially for mathematical annotation; the *.enc are encoding files). They are "used" by specifying the family and/or encoding argument(s) when starting one of these devices. See ?postscript and ?pdf The Hershey fonts are available for all graphical formats and can be accessed via a vfont argument currently. See ?text All Hershey fonts are hard-coded to use a fixed encoding (mostly ISO-Latin-1). Paul
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