R help - Nov 1999 - size of text and numbers in graphs (PR#349)

Hi!

Since installation of R 0.90 there are problems with the size 
of text and numbers also in the x11-device (I reported about similar 
problems with the postscript device recently). For numbers and 
letters a different size is used:

plot(1:10,1:10,type="n")
text(2,8,"F5F5F5F5F5")
text(2,7,"F5F5F5F5F5",cex=2)

The same problem is also found in the postscript device.
The difference is small but clearly visible.

Thanks for fixing soon!


Wolfgang Koller


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Wolfgang Koller,  koller2@fgr.wu-wien.ac.at
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Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
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koller2@fgr.wu-wien.ac.at writes:
> Hi!
> 
> Since installation of R 0.90 there are problems with the size 
> of text and numbers also in the x11-device (I reported about similar 
> problems with the postscript device recently). For numbers and 
> letters a different size is used:
> 
> plot(1:10,1:10,type="n")
> text(2,8,"F5F5F5F5F5")
> text(2,7,"F5F5F5F5F5",cex=2)
> 
> The same problem is also found in the postscript device.
> The difference is small but clearly visible.
> 
> Thanks for fixing soon!
It's not a bug. The fonts are designed that way (capital letters one
pixel taller than numbers in some sizes). Try for instance running
xfontsel with

-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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