[R-SIG-Mac] preferences tabs don't match help

[Simon Urbanek]

On Aug 11, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Ivan Baxter wrote:

> Okay- this is probably something really simple that I am missing,  
> but I
> haven't managed to find an answer poking around the archives....
>
> I am trying to set the default font  and font size on R 2.5.1 for mac
> and the preference pane seems to be missing several functionalities.
>
> When I have R open and go to applications menu -> preferences  the  
> help
> document says that I should see 4 tabs:
>
> Text Windows tab
> Quartz device tab
> Packages tab
> Misc tab
>
> instead I see 5 icons:
> General: Startup
> Source Editor: Editor and Syntax Colors
> Views:  Console Colors  and Quartz
>
> the text windows tab is nowhere to be seen.
>
> I feel like I must be missing something painfully obvious, but I can't
> figure out what it is.
>

The docs are unfortunately out of sync,. The text size can be set  
either in the toolbar (but you have to enable it in 'customize  
toolbar' first) or by <Cmd><+>/<-> (or the menu). The font size  
management was somewhat messed up, but that should be fixed in the  
nightly build of the GUI (see http://r.research.att.com/ ). The font  
type cannot be changed atm (at least not persistently).

Cheers,
Simon