On 2025-02-19 6:36 a.m., Paul Sherliker via R-help wrote:
I make graphs, in large quantities, for perfectionists.
My bosses do not like the results of text like 'baseline-defined' in graphs;
they feel that the resulting dash is too long.
For many years, I have been in the habit of producing graphs with shorter
dashes as follows:
pdf("myfile.pdf")
plot(1, 10)
text(1, 11, "baseline\255defined")
text(1, 9, "done")
graphics.off()
They like that dash - but I never knew what it was called.
Recently work updated my PC to the latest version of Windows, and, perforce, I
updated to the latest version of R (4.4.2).
(So I'm not sure which change caused my problem; in any case I cannot
practically go back for either.)
The code above now fails, with the error message:
Error in text.default(1, 11, "baseline\xaddefined") : invalid input 'baseline> text(1, 9,
"done")
I'm trying various Unicode values, currently settling on \U{2010}, but I'm
getting complaints about the length of my dashes.
I'm no expert on fonts, and perhaps I've missed a Unicode value that would be
perfect.
This web page: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Pd lists a
lot of choices. You didn't say what the complaints were ("too long"?
"too short"?), so I can't recommend what to try other than \U{2010}, but
there is a big variety of choices there.
Duncan Murdoch
Is there a way to get back to what I had, without resorting to more complicated
code, please?
Thank you for looking at my deeply obscure niche problem!
Paul
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