[Tikzdevice-bugs] Arial and Other Things

[Lorenzo Isella]

I see. Would it be possible to find out more about how you fixed the
plot (i.e.: is there a patch or something I can use as a temporary quick
and dirty solution)?
Last but not least: once this glitch has been ironed out, will it be
communicated via this mailing list?
Cheers and have a nice weekend

Lorenzo


On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 16:56 -0600, Cameron Bracken wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo-
> 
> We specifically don't allow the user to set the font family in the
> traditional way because we expect the user to do that though LaTeX or
> the document header options. Unfortunately this is directly related to
> the previous problem:
> 
> There is definitely a bug in selecting fonts. It seems as though
> Computer Modern was always used regardless of the font choice but I
> never noticed because I used fonts with very similar metrics to cm.
> Anyway, I hacked the code and got it to work (you can see from the
> attached plot), but there is no general solution yet.  We will have to
> figure out how we want to approach this problem from a user
> perspective since the expected methods do not work.
> 
> -Cameron
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Lorenzo Isella
> <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 10:28 -0700, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
> >> Thanks for taking the time to put together this example Lorenzo, I
> >> will play with it and see if I can't figure something out.
> >
> > Hi,
> > In case it matters, please take a look at
> >
> > http://bit.ly/9ATz9V
> >
> > where it is explained how to use arial fonts in R. I tried the
> > suggestion (BTW, the path is /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ on
> > my Ubuntu machine).
> > The recipe allowed me to use arial fonts in ggplot2 plots (where I was
> > using simply pdf() and not tikzDevice to generate the pdf file).
> > I do not know if I can specify the font family in a tikzDevice call, but
> > you probably do ;-).
> > Cheers
> >
> > Lorenzo
> >
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