[R] Printing Unicode characters in a PDF document

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:53 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> Sorry for the noise. I did not read to the end and then pasted the  
> wrong code in as well.
>
> I intended to post a suggestion to use:
>
> text(1,1, expression(mu))
>
> I'm guessing it is happening because different fonts or families are  
> being used for quartz and pdf devices. But I am not skilled at  
> managing fonts.

Here's what I came up with using a Hershey font strategy:

?Hershey

 > pdf("mu.pdf")
 > plot(1,1, type="n")
 > text(1,1, "\\*m", vfont=c("sans serif symbol", "plain"))
 > dev.off()

> -- 
David.

> -- 
> David.
>
> On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:38 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
>> ?plotmath
>>
>> Try instead:
>>
>>> pdf("mu.pdf")
>>> plot(1,1, type="n")
>>> text(1,1, "\u3BC")
>>> dev.off()
>>
>> On Mar 20, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote:
>>
>>>> pdf("mu.pdf")
>>>> plot(1,1, type="n")
>>>> text(1,1, "\u3BC")
>>>> dev.off()
>>
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT