Ugly default Tk font on Mac OS

On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:

Le lundi 08 octobre 2012 ? 12:43 -0700, David Winsemius a ?crit :

Nope. Haven't changed any of the defaults:

quartzFonts()

$serif
[1] "Times-Roman"      "Times-Bold"       "Times-Italic"     "Times-BoldItalic"

$sans
[1] "Helvetica"             "Helvetica-Bold"        "Helvetica-Oblique"    
[4] "Helvetica-BoldOblique"

$mono
[1] "Courier"             "Courier-Bold"        "Courier-Oblique"    
[4] "Courier-BoldOblique"

Then, there's still a bug in Tcl/Tk or X11: it would be better if it
used the default sans font, Helvetica, so that it looks as similar as
possible to Quartz apps. But I have no idea where the default of
Bitstream Vera Sans comes from...

"Helvetica" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())

"Times" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())

[1] TRUE

"Courier" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())

[1] TRUE

Cannot tell you. Is this at all helpful:

X11Fonts()

$serif
[1] "-*-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$sans
[1] "-*-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$mono
[1] "-*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$Times
[1] "-adobe-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$Helvetica
[1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$CyrTimes
[1] "-cronyx-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$CyrHelvetica
[1] "-cronyx-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$Arial
[1] "-monotype-arial-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

$Mincho
[1] "-*-mincho-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"

Cheers

David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA