[R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

[Fisher Dennis]

David

You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS.  It was the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email)
Other suggestions would be helpful.

Dennis

Dennis Fisher MD
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On May 15, 2012, at 12:01 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

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