[Rd] Re: [R] /minus or /hyphen in PS output

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) You used the wrong list.  Please see the posting guide.

2) They used /minus because they wanted minus not hyphen.
R uses Latin1 and not standard encoding, and /minus is in Latin1.
I think the fonts you are using are not Latin1 fonts, as all the afms 
supplied with R support /minus.

If you look at the output with your patch, it uses hyphen for negative 
numbers, extremely poor typography (the sort of thing that you get from 
Word!).

3)  // is invalid in C code, and your patch will not compile on some 
systems which R supports.


There is perhaps a way around fonts which are missing /minus, but we want 
/minus if available.  Perhaps you would like to work on a more careful 
analysis and patch?  One that does not break standard usage?

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, M.Kondrin wrote:

> Dear R devolepers!
> Wouldn't you change src/main/devPS.c file (patch will follow). Problem 
> is  with  minus sign in ps output. The original code forces the name 
> /minus to the character number 45 (-). But /minus symbol is not defined 
> in standard Adobe encoding and (even worse) is not defined in most type1 
> fonts (where the name /hyphen is used instead), in this case you will 
> have an empty space instead of -. Redefining encoding for this fonts 
> does not help because encoding vector in ps output got "corrected" and 
> /hyphen (or any other name I have selected for 45'th character) is 
> replaced with /minus. I have tried this patch and it works for me.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> 449,450c449
> <       //      if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else
> <           strcpy(dest, state->p0);
> ---
>  >       if(c == 45) strcpy(dest, "/minus"); else strcpy(dest, state->p0);
> 
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