I believe that this depends on the font in use and the graphics engine doing the rendering, which I believe may depend on the OS. You supplied none of this information -- it _is_ asked for in the posting guide -- but you might try changing your fonts,font size, and/or graphics device to see whether that gives you something more to your liking.
HTH. -- Bert On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Fisher Dennis <fis...@plessthan.com> wrote: > David > > You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS. It was > the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email) > Other suggestions would be helpful. > > Dennis > > Dennis Fisher MD > P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) > www.PLessThan.com > > On May 15, 2012, at 12:01 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > >> >> On May 15, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote: >> >>> R 2.14.0 >>> OS X and Windows >>> >>> Colleagues >>> >>> I am trying to add some italicized text to a graphic using the code that >>> appears below. >>> For the italic text, kerning is not ideal -- spacing between letters is >>> larger than I expected. >>> Is there a simple solution to this? >> >> Use fewer tildes? >> >> >>> >>> Dennis >>> >>> plot(1, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="") >>> mtext(side=3, line=-0, "Some Text") >>> mtext(side=3, line=-1, expression(italic(Some) ~~ Text)) >>> mtext(side=3, line=-2, expression(italic(Some) ~~ italic(Text))) >>> >>> >>> >>> Dennis Fisher MD >>> P < (The "P Less Than" Company) >> >> -- >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
