[R] text display using expression or not

[Mark Difford]

Hi Sarah,

You will kick yourself (perhaps?).  Try:

?par   ## sub: font.main (& font, just above)

## Example
par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(1:10, 1:10, main="Figure A", font.main=1)
plot(1:10, 1:10, main=expression("Figure B"))

Regards,
Mark.


Sarah Goslee wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I imagine that I'm missing something straightforward, but a run thru
> the help files didn't turn up an answer.
> 
> I noticed while formatting some figures for publication that text
> enclosed in expression() and used for a title displays differently
> than a string, regardless of the par options. On both postscript()
> and x11() devices, the regular text is heavier than the expression text.
> 
> Here's an example. The "real thing" used expression() to
> produce superscripts, but I boiled this down to the simplest possible
> case.
> 
> par(mfrow=c(2,1))
> plot(1:10, 1:10, main="Figure A")
> plot(1:10, 1:10, main=expression("Figure B"))
> 
> Is there some straightforward way to make them match, other
> than putting expression() around all strings?
> 
> 
> I'm currently using R 2.5.0 on Fedora core 5.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> 
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