I modified my R build on RH8.0 to use the URW symbol font, and everything worked correctly, including the plotmath examples.
This suggests that the problem is in your X11 setup. Perhaps your Type 1 font support is not turned on or not working? (The URW fonts are Type 1.) On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > In src/modules/X11/devX11.c you will find > > static char *symbolname = "-*-symbol-*-*-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"; > > and you might want to change the first * to adobe. > > I don't think this is an R bug though: you seem to be saying that the > -urw-symbol font on your system does not work. It should display > something, and if that is really a symbol font, it should display the > correct characters. What exactly is wrong? > > There seems no way we can reproduce this. Could you perhaps show some > screenshots? (To R-devel: this is not yet known to be a bug and R-bugs > mangles attachments.) > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Full_Name: Ei-ji Nakama > > Version: R-1.7.1 > > OS: Linux(vinelinux) > > Submission from: (NULL) (219.117.236.13) > > > > > > The list of the fonts of my machine. > > > > $ xlsfonts -fn "-*-symbol-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-61-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-85-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-95-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-142-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific > > -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific > > -urw-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-urw-fontspecific > > -urw-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-urw-fontspecific > > > > A uws-symbol font will be read if it is going to read the adobe-symbol font. > > But will not come out, if it is fonts other than adobe-symbol. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
