1) You used the wrong list. Please see the posting guide.
2) They used /minus because they wanted minus not hyphen.
R uses Latin1 and not standard encoding, and /minus is in Latin1.
I think the fonts you are using are not Latin1 fonts, as all the afms
supplied with R support /minus.
If you look at the output with your patch, it uses hyphen for negative
numbers, extremely poor typography (the sort of thing that you get from
Word!).
3) // is invalid in C code, and your patch will not compile on some
systems which R supports.
There is perhaps a way around fonts which are missing /minus, but we want
/minus if available. Perhaps you would like to work on a more careful
analysis and patch? One that does not break standard usage?
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, M.Kondrin wrote:
> Dear R devolepers!
> Wouldn't you change src/main/devPS.c file (patch will follow). Problem
> is with minus sign in ps output. The original code forces the name
> /minus to the character number 45 (-). But /minus symbol is not defined
> in standard Adobe encoding and (even worse) is not defined in most type1
> fonts (where the name /hyphen is used instead), in this case you will
> have an empty space instead of -. Redefining encoding for this fonts
> does not help because encoding vector in ps output got
"corrected" and
> /hyphen (or any other name I have selected for 45'th character) is
> replaced with /minus. I have tried this patch and it works for me.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> 449,450c449
> < // if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else
> < strcpy(dest, state->p0);
> ---
> > if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else strcpy(dest,
state->p0);
>
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