Hi all! I consulted the help pages for postscript(). I noticed the execption for the "-" sign which is mapped to a minus glyph. How can I define a textstring that contains a hyphen (a short dash) and is applicable with strwidth(). Further I want to print it with postscript() Thanks for any advice. Roland R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 locale: de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/C/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] tools stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base