[R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

[David Winsemius]

On May 15, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote:

> 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?

Use fewer tildes?


>
> 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)))
>
>
>
> Dennis Fisher MD
> P < (The "P Less Than" Company)

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT