On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:13:35 -0500 Paul Flo Williams <f...@uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 02:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > > I am missing a font (for a while) but I can not figure out what it is. > > Basically, I get something like this on my help pages when using R.: > > > > > > 1 lm package:stats R > > Documentatio > > 1 n 2 > > 3 Fitting Linear Models > > 4 > > 5 Description: > > 6 > > 7<80><98>lm<80><99> is used to fit linear models. It can be us > > 7 ed to carry out > > 8 regression, single stratum analysis of variance and analysis > > of > > 9 covariance (although<80><98>aov<80><99> may provide a more co > > 9 nvenient interface > > 10 for these). > > 11 > > ..... > > > > Can I get rid of those line numbers? This did not happen for me > > before, from what I recall. > > You haven't said exactly what you typed to get this output, I used help(lm) within R. but if you > have line numbers when using man, you've asked for line numbers from > the pager that man uses, called "less". I think that typing > > echo $LESS > > will show that you've got the "-N" option set. unset LESS to stop this > happening. If this isn't the case, then you may have the MANPAGER > variable set to something like "/usr/bin/less -N". man man for details. Thanks very much for these detailed explanations! This really makes sense. > The font issue (seeing <80><98>lm<80><99>) is actually an encoding > issue in the man page you're looking at. It appears that the document > is using Windows curly quotes, which are not at their standard Unicode > positions. This would be a bug in the package that supplies that man page. Possible. But many of these webpages have not changed. Is it possible that previously, I this was not an issue because I was using the Microsoft TrueType Fonts, rather than Liberation now? Thanks again for the help! Best wishes, Ranjan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
