What is intended to happen is for it silently to use font 1. I am committing a fix to ensure that happens in the one spot that got missed.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Gavin Simpson wrote: > Dear Andy, Duncan and Brian > > Cheers for your replies > > That font.main thing is something I didn't pick up on when I cropped my > colleagues code down to a small example. > > font.main works fine with pointsize = 8, *if* you set font.main to one > of the values given in the entry for font in ?par. The code example I > posted works if I set font.main to 3 (for italics) for example, which is > what was produced with font.main = 16 on a windows() device. > > And Brian has confirmed that postcript devices have only 5 fonts in R. > > Not really a /feature/ though, I'd expect an error message telling me to > not be so stupid next time... ;-) > > Once again, thank you all for your replies. > > Gav > -- 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-help