[Tikzdevice-bugs] Arial and Other Things

[Cameron Bracken]

That is likely happening happening because what I gave you changes the
font after character metrics are calculated.   The following is a much
better option:

setTikzDefaults()
options(tikzLatexPackages=c(getOption("tikzLatexPackages"),'\\renewcommand{\\rmdefault}{phv}\n'))

just call these before your plot. Charlie is also right that some
other issues with font metrics were solved in 0.5 that also might
affect the placement of exponents.

-Cameron



On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Lorenzo Isella
<lorenzo.isella at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> And thanks for your suggestion. However, I am experiencing a problem:
> when I redraw the figure (i.e. pdflatex tex file with the tikzpicture
> wrapped up in the lines you gave me) there are some slight modifications
> (e.g. in 10^3 the "3" moves too close to the "10") that spoil the plot.
> I am using ggplot2+tikzDevice 0.4.8 (font size branch) and I wonder if
> any latest version of tikzDevice would solve the problem.
> I can try to provide you with a minimal example if needed.
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 13:03 -0600, Cameron Bracken wrote:
>> > Again I am not really reporting a bug but rather asking a question about
>> > tikzDevice,
>>
>> The name is a bit misleading but this is certainly the best place to
>> reach both us as you have found. :)
>>
>> >namely how can I select arial as the font in a standalone
>> > figure generated via tikzDevice?
>>
>> wrap the tikzpicture in:
>>
>> {\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont
>> ....
>> }
>>
>> This actually selects helvetica but who can tell the difference anyway? ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > And finally, (sorry for being annoying) is tikzDevice 0.5 going to be
>> > release before September?
>>
>> Highly likely.
>>
>> -Cameron
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