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...config integration is broken). Just use the sans-serif or monospace fontconfig defaults. You don?t need Symbol, or OpenSymbol, or any special font setup. Symbol?s codepoint coverage is laughable by 2020?s UTF-8 standards. Symbol << Normal Unicode font (DejaVu*) << Special math fonts (STIX2) I you do advanced math stuff, you may need a special math font like STIX, but that?s lights years more advanced than Symbol, and a general purpose font like DejaVu has been shipping a MATH block for several years now Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

...re apparently not common in fonts with a very broad Unicode coverage. I did find a TrueType font that I could add a Unicode cmap to that gave complete coverage pretty much all by itself, but it is not distributable. > Symbol << Normal Unicode font (DejaVu*) << Special math fonts (STIX2) > > I you do advanced math stuff, you may need a special math font like > STIX, but that?s lights years more advanced than Symbol, and a general > purpose font like DejaVu has been shipping a MATH block for several > years now Sure. One way to look at the new 'symbolfamily...

Hi Thanks for your input on this I?aki and Nicolas. I am starting testing an R fix for this problem today. As suggested, the plan is to allow the R user to specify a font family other than "symbol" for plotmath output (or, more generally, in R parlance, for 'font=5' or 'fontface=5') on a Cairo-based graphics device. Paul On 27/03/20 11:30 pm, I?aki Ucar wrote: