[R] Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Paul Smith wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include
> them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to
> have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the
> LaTeX document. Is that possible?

Well, it depends on what that font is.  But if it is TeX font,
see the section called 'TeX fonts' in ?postscript and the detailed 
description in the article in R-news 6/2 by Paul Murrell and myself.

If it is an Adobe Type1 font such as Times New Roman, just specify an 
appropriate family in the pdf() call.

Dietrich Trenkler wrote:

> maybe you will find the psfrag package useful.

I doubt it will be even usable with PDF (there are pdfrack and Xfigfrag, 
though), and with postscript it is at best a kludge as R does its own 
micro-positioning of text based on the font metrics.

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