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Larger X11 fonts under R-2.1.0

2 messages · Brahm, David, Brian Ripley

Brahm, David
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I view plots on my screen with X11(width=.455*11, height=.455*8.5),
which creates a small window with the American standard aspect ratio.
Under R-2.0.1 and earlier, the default fonts were a reasonable size,
but under R-2.1.0 they are too big and fat.  I now have to either set
pointsize=10 in X11(), or par(cex=.7) afterwards.

The NEWS file has this to say about X11 fonts:
  The changes to font handling in the X11 module are based on the
  Japanization patches of Eiji Nakama.
I'm not sure if that's relevant to the change I'm seeing.  Has anyone
else noticed a difference in the X11 fonts?  (I assume this is
different from Xiang-Jun Lu's problem, since I do not get any error
messages that fonts "could not be loaded".)

-- David Brahm (brahm at alum.mit.edu)
Brian Ripley
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On Thu, 19 May 2005, Brahm, David wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
So you should.  We have corrected a bug: you now get the size you ask for
and 12pt on such a small window will be too large.

DId you think to actually measure the sizes?  Might be interesting 
(although you may need to measure the window too).

            

      
      
      
    

        
The change is more likely to be

     o	X11() was only scaling its fonts to pointsize if the dpi
 	was within 0.5 of 100dpi.

in the BUGS list.

I happen to have 99.4 and 120 dpi screens, and I assure you the previous 
default of 75dpi fonts was way too small for the default 7" window.