[R] CM Fonts in PDF output

[baptiste auguie]

Hi,

Not answering your question, but the tikzDevice package is another
option if you want to match LaTeX fonts seamlessly.

HTH,

baptiste

2009/11/17 Markus Jochmann <markus.jochmann at strath.ac.uk>:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Linux I try to produce pdf graphs with computer modern fonts so that they
> look nice in LaTeX documents. I run for example:
>
> ------
> CM <- Type1Font( "CM",
> c("/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmr8a.afm",
> "/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmb8a.afm",
> "/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmri8a.afm",
> "/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmbi8a.afm",
> "./cmsyase.afm" ) )
> pdfFonts(CM=CM)
> pdf( "test.pdf", width = 5, height = 4, family = "CM"  )
> plot(c(-1,0,1))
> dev.off()
> -----
>
> which works fine except that R has problems with the minus sign for the
> labels and axis and I get the following warnings:
>
> ---
> ... font width unknown for character 0x2d ...
> ---
> The minus signs are directly printed on the numbers, not in front of them.
>
> Does anybody know what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks already now,
> Markus.
>
>
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