[Rd] unexpected behaviour of expression(sum())

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I see you have both a scalable font (the first) and size-specfic fonts. 
My guess is that the scalable font is not encoded in the same way as the 
others: can you track down where it is coming from?

Otherwise my list on FC3 is the same as yours (minus the duplicates, which 
are also puzzling).  I have also just checked Exceed, which has the same 
list plus scalable fonts (and also has

-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-sun-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-sun-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-sun-fontspecific

which caused problems for 2.0.1 with getting bold symbols in some sizes, 
hence the second bug fix I mentioned).

As a wild guess, do you have a font server as well as local fonts?

Brian


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> On Friday 11 March 2005 01:19, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Marc Schwartz wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 19:57 -0600, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
>>>> I'm seeing inconsistent symbols from the same expression with the
>>>> following code:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> expr = expression(sum(x, 1, n))
>>>> plot(1, main = expr, type = "n")
>>>> text(1, 1, expr)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, the inconsistency is reversed in r-devel compared to R
>>>> 2.0.1. In particular, the main label shows a \bigoplus instead of
>>>> \sum in r-devel, and the other way round in 2.0.1. demo(plotmath)
>>>> shows \sum in both.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone confirm? Is this intended behaviour (though I can't see
>>>> how)?
>>>
>>> No problem in "Version 2.0.1 Patched (2005-03-07)". I get \sum in
>>> both places. I do not see anything in the NEWS file suggesting a
>>> bug fix for this.
>>>
>>> I just installed "Version 2.1.0 Under development (unstable)
>>> (2005-03-11)" and do not see the problem there either.
>>>
>>> Both are under FC3.
>>
>> We need to know both the device and the locale.  Assuming this is
>> X11, there are two fixes for font selection:
>
> Yes, it's X11, with locale "C". It doesn't happen with postscript (I
> haven't tried anything else).
>
> I had tried on 3 different machines other than my desktop, but all
> remotely. Marc's reply suggested that this was a problem with X on my
> local machine, and I haven't yet had a chance to check on any others.
>
>>      o X11() was only scaling its fonts to pointsize if the dpi
>>   was within 0.5 of 100dpi.
>>
>>      o X11() font selection was looking for any symbol font, and
>>   sometimes got e.g. bold italic if the server has such a font.
>>
>> The main title in plot() and text() are asking for different sizes.
>> If Deepayan had problems with getting a valid (Adobe symbol-encoded)
>> font, this might vary by size which would explain the reported
>> differences.
>>
>> Deepayan: can you please check what symbol fonts you have: the
>> pattern in R-devel is
>>
>> "-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
>>
>> (Ideally we would select on encoding, but that is usually
>> 'fontspecific' so not helpful.)
>
> I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, but everything I get seems to
> be 'fontspecific':
>
> deepayan $ xlsfonts | grep adobe-symbol-medium
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-95-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-95-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific
> deepayan $
>
> -Deepayan
>
>

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