R-alpha: text outside plots

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@kubism.ku.dk
10 Nov 1997 10:08:50 +0100


Jim Lindsey <jlindsey@luc.ac.be> writes:

> 
> When text() is used to write a string in the margin of a plot (for
> example, between plots on a multiplot screen), the words appear on the
> window but not when a postscript file is produced. In fact, they are
> in the file, but clipped. This should be made consistent, preferably
> so that they appear in both.
>   Jim

Aren't you supposed to use mtext() for putting text in margins? I
suspect that text() should behave like points(), etc. -- i.e. clip in
all cases. Or the clipping could be made optional.

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