[Rd] Automatic shortening of text to fit into area

Sebastian Fischmeister sfischme at uwaterloo.ca
Sun Jan 25 05:05:50 CET 2009


Hello,

   A comment in engine.c states: "/* don't draw anything; this could  
be made less crude :) */". The following patch makes it less crude: If  
the device doesn't support clipping and the text doesn't fit into the  
area, then remove one character after another from the text until  
either the text fits or the string is empty.

I attached the patch—it's not indented correctly to keep the patch  
size small—and a test script, so you can give it a try. I don't know  
the R core very well, so this change may need some discussion. Yet it  
works for my figures.

Have fun,
   Sebastian

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