On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, [gb2312] Jinsong Zhao wrote: > By default, MetaPost passes all text through TeX. This has the > advantage of allowing essentially any TeX symbols in titles and labels. > It give us, who use the multibyte character in ordinary communication, > much convenience. Gnuplot has fulfilled this function, and it give me a > deep impression for I could use Chinese character in plots with a minor > modification to the MetaPost file.
I don't think so: you would still need character metrics for the fonts you use to be able to centre them, for example. > I hope the R Development Core Team could consider MetaPost as a graphic > device in future R version. We would welcome your contributing such a device. Note though that there is a public API for graphics devices, and so you could just contribute the device to CRAN. If perchance you meant `I want the R core team to write a metapost device for me', then you have not grasped how Open Source projects work. There are some plans for internationalization of R via UTF-8, but this will be a considerable amount (man months?) of work, and of very little benefit to any of the core developers. Volunteers would be welcome. -- 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 PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
