[R-SIG-Mac] Ugly default Tk font on Mac OS

[David Winsemius]

On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:51 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> 
>> Le lundi 08 octobre 2012 à 12:43 -0700, David Winsemius a écrit :
>>> Nope. Haven't changed any of the defaults:
>>> 
>>>> quartzFonts()
>>> $serif
>>> [1] "Times-Roman"      "Times-Bold"       "Times-Italic"     "Times-BoldItalic"
>>> 
>>> $sans
>>> [1] "Helvetica"             "Helvetica-Bold"        "Helvetica-Oblique"    
>>> [4] "Helvetica-BoldOblique"
>>> 
>>> $mono
>>> [1] "Courier"             "Courier-Bold"        "Courier-Oblique"    
>>> [4] "Courier-BoldOblique"
>> Then, there's still a bug in Tcl/Tk or X11: it would be better if it
>> used the default sans font, Helvetica, so that it looks as similar as
>> possible to Quartz apps. But I have no idea where the default of
>> Bitstream Vera Sans comes from...
>> 

Also note this:

> "Helvetica" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())
[1] TRUE
> > "Times" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())
> [1] TRUE
> > "Courier" %in% as.character(tkfont.families())
> [1] TRUE
> 

> Cannot tell you. Is this at all helpful:
> 
>> X11Fonts()
> $serif
> [1] "-*-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $sans
> [1] "-*-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $mono
> [1] "-*-courier-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $Times
> [1] "-adobe-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $Helvetica
> [1] "-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $CyrTimes
> [1] "-cronyx-times-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $CyrHelvetica
> [1] "-cronyx-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $Arial
> [1] "-monotype-arial-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> $Mincho
> [1] "-*-mincho-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> 
> 
>> Cheers
> 
> David Winsemius, MD
> Alameda, CA, USA
> 
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA