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CM Fonts in PDF output

4 messages · Baptiste Auguie, Brian Ripley, Markus Jochmann

Markus Jochmann
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Hi!

On Linux I try to produce pdf graphs with computer modern fonts so that they
look nice in LaTeX documents. I run for example:

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CM <- Type1Font( "CM",
c("/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmr8a.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmb8a.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmri8a.afm",
"/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmbi8a.afm",
"./cmsyase.afm" ) ) 
pdfFonts(CM=CM)
pdf( "test.pdf", width = 5, height = 4, family = "CM"  )
plot(c(-1,0,1))
dev.off()
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which works fine except that R has problems with the minus sign for the
labels and axis and I get the following warnings:

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... font width unknown for character 0x2d ...
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The minus signs are directly printed on the numbers, not in front of them.

Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks already now,
Markus.
Baptiste Auguie
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Hi,

Not answering your question, but the tikzDevice package is another
option if you want to match LaTeX fonts seamlessly.

HTH,

baptiste

2009/11/17 Markus Jochmann <markus.jochmann at strath.ac.uk>:
Brian Ripley
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Since 0x2d = 45, it looks like those fonts are missing 'minus'.  See 
?postscript for more details on encodings (and 'minus' vs 'hyphen').

'Linux' is too imprecise here. but I looked at my TeXLive 2009 
installation (in a different place) and fcmr8a.afm did not contain 
'minus'.
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I suspect that you are not actually looking at the right font (given 
that it seems not to have a minus sign): how did you view the PDF?

            

      
      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Thanks Baptiste for your hint, I will try this at some point.

I solved the issue thanks to Brian Ripley. I followed the instructions by
Paul Murrell (http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/CM/CMR.html) but not
exactly enough. Instead of downloading the font files from
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-lgc.html I looked
for them on my harddrive which led me to those that come with texlive from
Ubuntu. These do not contain the minus sign, but the ones on CTAN do.

Markus.

        
baptiste auguie-5 wrote: