>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:16:15 +0000 (GMT) writes:
[............]
BDR> In a later message Louise mentioned the desire to use TeX fonts for
BDR> annotation, to match a LaTeX document. Paul Murrell has pointed out
his
BDR> and my article in R-News 2006-2 about how to do this.
BDR> Louise almost mentioned the 'the gnuplot cvs which have pdfcairo
support'.
BDR> Well, R too has development versions, and I was able to do
>> par(family="cmr10")
>> plot(1:10)
BDR> in R-devel and get annotations in Computer Modern on screen, or
>> cairo_pdf()
>> par(family="cmr10")
>> plot(1:10)
BDR> and get this on a PDF file.
BDR> To do so you would need /usr/share/fonts/mathml/cmr10.ttf installed,
at
BDR> least on F8 (part of the mathml-fonts RPM).
Aha, thank you!
I found that in Ubuntu / Debian the package you need is called
latex-xft-fonts
{i.e. in a shell you install via
sudo apt-get install latex-xft-fonts
}
Martin
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