R help - Jun 2005 - crosshair in scatterplot to mark special points

In a plot on an X11 device,  I'd like to mark a few points with 
a large thin "crosshairs".  By "mark" I mean: draw the
crosshair
on the plot.

The two unsatisfactory methods that I have are:

METHOD 1:
   points( x, y, pch="+" ,cex=2)

METHOD 2:  
    line(xa, xb, y0, y0)
    line(x0, x0, ya, yb)

Method #1 produces a crosshair with fat lines.  It is not possible
to adequately scale the "plus-sign" for my purposes, due to messages
like:

   X11 used font size 34 when 42 was requested

Method #2 produces a thin crosshair, but it is difficult to get the two 
crosshair lines to be of the same physical length on the device.  the 
lines also change length when i change/resize the device.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions,

Mike

platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    2                
minor    1.0              
year     2005             
month    04               
day      18               
language R

Mike R wrote:
> In a plot on an X11 device,  I'd like to mark a few points with 
> a large thin "crosshairs".  By "mark" I mean: draw the
crosshair
> on the plot.
> 
  Try using the numerical pch symbols. '3' is a crosshair, so see what 
the following do:

  plot(1:10,pch=3)
  plot(1:10,pch=3,cex=2)
  plot(1:10,pch=3,cex=4)

They're probably documented somewhere, but:

  plot(1:26,pch=1:26,cex=2)

  will show you them.

Baz