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paraty
2006 Aug 14
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mtext uses the typographical descender to align text
...e reason, mtext uses the typographical descender (bottom
of letters) to align text. That is: "gG" will end up slightly higher
that "GG". Depending on the font, "Q" might end up higher than "O".
(for explanation of baseline & descender see:
http://www.paratype.com/help/term/terms.asp?code=88)
Example:
y1 <- rnorm(30)
y2 <- rnorm(30)
group <- as.factor(rep(1:6, each=10))
y <- c(y1,y2)
testdata <- data.frame(group, y)
plot (y ~group, axes=F, xlab="why does R align the BOTTOM of the
letters???" )
box()
mtext(expression(italic(&q...