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

[Sverre Stausland]

Hi Donald,

could you be a little bit more specific? When creating a pdf, when
should this call be made?

Best
Sverre

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Donald Derrick
<dderrick@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> I just use code like:
> tryCatch(par(family="Doulos SIL"),error=par(family="sans"))
> If you don't like/have "Doulos SIL", pick another font.  Same with the
> fallback font.
>
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> DD
>
> On 2011-07-20, at 4:06 PM, Bill Poser wrote:
>
> I hesitate to recommend this technique, but if you are really stuck you
> could try directly hacking the postscript as described in this post from the
> time before R supported Unicode:
> http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/phonetics/archive/Unicode%20in%20R%20Text.htm
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sverre Stausland <johnsen@fas.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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,
>> >
>> > 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).
>> >
>> > Best & let us know if that helps!
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>> > On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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"
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Roger Levy                      Email: rlevy@ucsd.edu
>> > Assistant Professor             Phone: 858-534-7219
>> > Department of Linguistics       Fax:   858-534-4789
>> > UC San Diego                    Web:   http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rlevy
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