Graphical output format
On 15 May 2009, at 10:01, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Dieter Menne wrote:
Stats Wolf <stats.wolf <at> gmail.com> writes:
Postscript, however, does not have to be what I need for two reasons. First, it does not accept some special characters from foreign languages (exactly like PDF).
'foreign' is a relative term which is imprecise (and somewhat impolite) when writing to an international community: I don't suppose Dieter Menne regards German characters as 'foreign' but Ei-ji Nakama does, unlike Japanese ones.
You should given an example for that in pdf. I always had the impression that pdf is the most comprehensive in foreign character support.
Just a thought: There was recently a discussion here on the pgfSweave [1] driver --- it should be possible to use it in conjunction with XeTeX [2] to process the pgf output. Presumably there will be issues of alignment and spacing but at least arbitrary characters of most languages could be employed in a fairly straight-forward manner. [1]: http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=331 [2]: http://www.tug.org/xetex/ Regards, baptiste _____________________________ Baptiste Augui? School of Physics University of Exeter Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4QL, UK Phone: +44 1392 264187 http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/emag