[R] strwidth of bold font

Roland Kaiser roland.kaiser at sbg.ac.at
Wed Oct 31 11:30:15 CET 2007



> Hi
>
>
> Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
>> Perhaps:
>> strwidth(expression(bold("text")))
>
>
> Or set the default font face ...

Thanks!
Things can often be so easy!

Roland

>
> plot(1:10)
> text(4, 6, "testing", adj=c(0, 0))
> segments(4, 6, 4 + strwidth("testing"), 6, col="red")
> par(font=2)
> text(4, 8, "testing", adj=c(0, 0))
> segments(4, 8, 4 + strwidth("testing"), 8, col="red")
>
> Paul
>
>
>> On 30/10/2007, Roland Kaiser <roland.kaiser at sbg.ac.at> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get the string width of the bold typefaces?
>>>
>>> like: strwidth("text", family = "serif", font = 2).
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Roland
>>>
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