[Rd] italic (PR#7932)

[ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de]

ggrothendieck at gmail.com wrote:

> Full_Name: G. Grothendieck
> Version: R version 2.1.0, 2005-05-14
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (216.59.254.207)
> 
> 
> This code:
> 
> 
>>plot(1:10)
>>text(5,5,lab=expression(italic(22*"33")))

For mathematical non-character-string annotation a math font is used 
that does not support italic/bold/bolditalic/plain.
It seems to be worth adding this information to ?plotmath, such as:
"(only for characters, but not for math font)".

Uwe Ligges


> 
> has the effect of italicizing 33 (which is a character string) but not 22
> (which is not).  I would have thought that both, not just 33, would be
> italicized.
> 
> I had previously posted about this last week:
> 
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2005-June/033526.html
> 
> however, no one responded.
> 
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