> On Aug 18, 2017, at 7:27 AM, Andras Farkas via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> could you please provide input on the following:
> 
> plot(1:10,main=paste("\n   ","\nABCD","\n    ","\n    ","\n    
> "),cex.main=1.3) 
> 
> a<-500 
> b<-12 
> mtext(bquote(bold(.(formatC(1.2*a,decimal.mark=",",digits=2,format="f")))~ " 
> words "~bold(.(b))~" words"~"\n    "~"\n    ")) 
> 
> 
> 
> as you will see form the sub-title only the result of  
> formatC(1.2*a,decimal.mark=",",digits=2,format="f") gets bolded, while the 
> part bold(.(b)) does not seem to bold the letter 'b'... In addition, the 
> spacing ("\n ") at the end of the mtext line also does not seem to get 
> recognized.... any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong?

Failing to read the ?plotmath page. Numeric values do not get bolded. You will 
need to wrap with as.character(). And "\n"'s are not recognized. 

-- 
David.
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