[R-lang] Re: Embedding phonetic symbols in R

[Sverre Stausland]

Hi Roger,

I've actually seen that thread before, but the only thing I extracted
from it was "use Cairo", which I did ... There are some remaining
details to be sorted out, I just don't know what they are.

Sverre

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Levy, Roger <rlevy@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Sverre,
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> You might find the following thread useful:
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>  http://pidgin.ucsd.edu/pipermail/r-lang/mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/ling-r-lang-l/2010-October/000110.html
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> For me a crucial part of the puzzle was using the cairo_pdf and cairo_ps drivers (kudos to Paul Metzner for pointing this out).
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> Best & let us know if that helps!
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> Roger
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> On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only Windows user out there trying to embed IPA
>> symbols in R graphics and then make a pdf out of it. If anyone knows
>> how to do that, I would appreciate some help. Because I have not
>> succeeded.
>>
>> Here is what I have tried. I'm creating a plot in R with IPA phonetic
>> symbols, using the standard
>> font Doulos SIL
>> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=DoulosSILfont&_sc=1)
>>
>> When attempting to create a pdf of this plot in R using the pdf()
>> function, I will get the following error messages:
>>
>>> pdf(file="C:/~myplot.pdf")
>>> plot.default(my.x,my.y,type="n")
>>> windowsFonts(IPA="TT Doulos SIL")
>>> text(my.x,my.y,labels=my.data$words.with.IPA,family="IPA")
>> Error in text.default(my.x, my.y,  :
>> Invalid font type
>> In addition: Warning messages:
>> 1: In text.default(my.x, my.y,  :
>> font family not found in PostScript font database
>>
>> I've been advised that I can resolve this problem using the Cairo
>> package for R. But I have not succeeded. Here is my call:
>>
>>> library(Cairo)
>>> CairoPDF(file="C:/~myplot.pdf")
>>> plot.default(my.x,my.y,type="n")
>>> windowsFonts(IPA="TT Doulos SIL")
>>> text(my.x,my.y,labels=my.data$words.with.IPA,family="IPA")
>>> dev.off()
>>
>> It produces a pdf file, but all the IPA symbols come out as boxes.
>>
>> Please note that R has no difficulties producing this plot in its
>> graphic window with IPA symbols. It's only the pdf output I'm having
>> difficulties with.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated! Further details follow below.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
>> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
>> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] Cairo_1.4-9
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.13.1
>>
>>> Sys.getlocale()
>> [1] "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252"
>
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