[R-lang] Re: Including IPA fonts in plots?

[Gary Krug]

You can go to this website and run a flash script to see what fonts you 
have on your system, and you can also look at the IPA codepoints to see 
what fonts support them.

http://www.fileformat.info/

- Gary Krug


Levy, Roger wrote:

>Michael, Adam, many thanks! Specifying the 'family' parameter has worked for plotting commands executed within the R.app GUI.
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>I still am having trouble generating PDF and Postscript graphs; the postscript and PDF graphics devices don't seem to know where to find the font family, e.g.
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>>pdf("test.pdf")
>>par(family="Doulos SIL");plot(1:2,1:2);text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ")
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>Error in axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : 
>  Invalid font type
>In addition: Warning messages:
>1: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>2: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>3: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>4: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>5: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>6: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>7: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
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>Does anyone have suggestions on how to inform these graphics devices of what to do given the font specification?
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>Many thanks again.
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>Roger
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>On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Michael Becker wrote:
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>>Hi Roger,
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>>Specifying the name of a Unicode font will do the trick, e.g.:
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>>par(family="Linux Libertine"); plot(1:2,1:2);text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ")
>>or
>>par(family="Doulos SIL");plot(1:2,1:2);text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ")
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>>You'll need to have the relevant font installed, of course.
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>>I hope this helps,
>>Michael
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>>On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
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>>>Has anyone had unqualified success in rendering IPA symbols in R?  graphs I've had trouble; within the R.app GUI on OS X, the commands
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>>>>plot(1:2,1:2)
>>>>text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ") # in case it's not rendered properly in your email client, the character is the wedge in UTF-8
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>>>give just a box, and I get even worse failure if I try to create a Postscript or PDF file:
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>>>>postscript("test.ps") # same error ensues if I use pdf("test.pdf") here instead
>>>>plot(1:2,1:2)
>>>>text(1.5,1.5,"ʌ")
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Warning messages:
>>>1: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>>> conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <ca>
>>>2: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>>> conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <8c>
>>>3: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>>> font metrics unknown for Unicode character U+028c
>>>4: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>>> conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <ca>
>>>5: In text.default(1.5, 1.5, "ʌ") :
>>> conversion failure on 'ʌ' in 'mbcsToSbcs': dot substituted for <8c>
>>>
>>>Interesting, ash (æ) renders fine on all graphics devices
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>>>Any suggestions would be very welcome!
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>>>(Stefan Evert suggested a while back that IPA fonts should just work within the R.app GUI for OS X, but I haven't found this to be the case.)
>>>
>>>Best & many thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>--
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>>>Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy@ling.ucsd.edu
>>>Assistant Professor             Phone: 858-534-7219
>>>Department of Linguistics       Fax:   858-534-4789
>>>UC San Diego                    Web:   http://ling.ucsd.edu/~rlevy
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>>-- 
>>Michael Becker
>>Department of Linguistics
>>Harvard University
>>http://becker.phonologist.org/
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>Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy@ling.ucsd.edu
>Assistant Professor             Phone: 858-534-7219
>Department of Linguistics       Fax:   858-534-4789
>UC San Diego                    Web:   http://ling.ucsd.edu/~rlevy
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