[Rd] Greek symbols not generated on quartz device (PR#6708)

[stefano iacus]

Symbols fonts has changed encoding from 10.2 to 10.3 and this brokes 
things when using RAqua on different systems.
The new R 1.9.0 fixes this.
Still not able to get styled text (bold, italcs) at the moment.
stefano

On Mar 28, 2004, at 9:55 AM, marksj at nrel.colostate.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Mark St. John
> Version: 1.8.1
> OS: Macintosh 10.3.3
> Submission from: (NULL) (63.135.5.86)
>
>
> After upgrading from Mac OS 10.2.8 to 10.3.3 a program I wrote to 
> generate plots
> will no longer display annotated Greek symbols. I'm using parse() and
> expression() to convert variable text in to symbols and it would 
> appear that
> both functions work reasonably well except that Greek characters are 
> missing.
>
> I have a second computer still running OS 10.2.8 and have confirmed 
> that the
> same R program generates figures with annotated Greek symbols properly.
>
> I've only tried this on the quartz device, I've not installed a good 
> postscript
> viewer yet.
>
> Perhaps related: on neither OS 10.2.8 nor 10.3.3 have I been able to 
> get
> "italic" text to display properly--it always appears as regular text 
> despite
> trying several different font families.
>
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