Am 19.11.2007 um 18:43 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote: > >> Hi all! >> >> To add to my previous posting >> I want to give some more deatils give a more precise >> >> I want to print a hyphen to a pdf() or postscript() device. >> As the documentaion of postscript says >> ASCII Character 45("-") is mapped to a minus sign (ASCII Character >> 95) by default. >> The advice given is to use "\173" for a hyphen. >> >> But, the following code produces a curly brace >> instead of a hyphen. >> >> Thanks for any advice? > > Check your reading before posting? The advice actually is > > There is an exception. Character 45 ('"-"') is always set as > minus (its value in Adobe ISOLatin1) even though it is hyphen in > the other encodings. Hyphen is available as character 173 (octal > 0255) in all the Latin encodings, Cyrillic and Greek.
Sorry, I missed to honour the octal coding. > > So try "\255". And please don't post twice. I tried that, bit it raised an error pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1") display.ascii.d() mtext("\255", side = 3) dev.off() Warning messages: 1: In mtext("\xad", side = 3) : ungültige Eingabe für mbcsToLatin1 > >> >> Roland >> >> library(rgr) >> pdf("foo.pdf", encoding = "ISOLatin1") >> display.ascii.d() >> mtext("\173", side = 3) >> dev.off() >> >> >> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03) >> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1 >> >> locale: >> de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8/C/de_AT.UTF-8/de_AT.UTF-8 >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] rgr_1.0.3 MASS_7.2-36 akima_0.5-1 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > -- > 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 ______________________________________________ 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.