On 28-Jan-11 10:24:23, Andrew Collier wrote: > thanks for the rapid response. > > yes, in x11 your suggestion works perfectly. i have never > thought of the asterisk as being a superscript... to me it > has always been the "mulitply" sign which is centred. > thanks for the education! > > however, my plot is being sent to postscript, which i guess > does not support unicode because i get a whole flurry of > warnings and the text on the plot is not correct. > [snip]
Indeed, PostScript does not support Unicode, though for the characters which it does support it would be possible to convert Unicode into appropriate PostScript references. However, PostScript does have a centred (non-superscript) asterisk. This is in the "Symbol" character set, and it is called "asteriskmath", with octal code 052 (decimal 42). But I do now know how to instruct R to cause this to be printed! (Though I feel sure someone else does). Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Jan-11 Time: 10:43:39 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.