[Rd] Fixed width graphics font?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 13, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch at pair.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:50:38 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there any way to get a fixed width plot in graphs?  I want to put 
>>> a text
>>> matrix into a plot and this would make it easy.
>>
>> In the Windows device, fonts 10 and 11 are fixed width "Courier New".
>> In general graphics devices don't have to supply such a font.
>
> In particular, I don't think it is possible in the postscript and x11
> devices (unless you switch the basic fonts in postscript). It
> shouldn't be hard to add, though -- basically just add a Courier font
> at font positions 6, and maybe continue with bold and oblique
> variants. However, I wouldn't know whether any of what Paul has been
> up to involves a more radical solution to font handling in general.

The current R-devel graphics device API supports font family name - I 
just didn't check yet which parameter is used to set it (fontfamily?).

Cheers,
Simon

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