[R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

[Dennis Fisher]

R 2.14.0
OS X and Windows

Colleagues

I am trying to add some italicized text to a graphic using the code that appears below.
For the italic text, kerning is not ideal -- spacing between letters is larger than I expected.   
Is there a simple solution to this?

Dennis

plot(1, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="")
mtext(side=3, line=-0, "Some Text")
mtext(side=3, line=-1, expression(italic(Some) ~~ Text))
mtext(side=3, line=-2, expression(italic(Some) ~~ italic(Text)))



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