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

[Sverre Stausland]

Hi Donald,

if someone else has the same problem later, I think it would be a good
idea to keep this thread alive in R-lang. Here's an easy reproducible
example which does not work for me:

> windowsFonts(IPA="TT Doulos SIL")
> tryCatch(par(family="IPA"),error=par(family="serif"))
> pdf("C:/test.pdf",family="serif")
> plot.new()
> plot.window(xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1))
> text(x=.5,y=.5,labels="\u027D",family="IPA",cex=5)
Error in text.default(x = 0.5, y = 0.5, labels = "<U+027D>", family = "IPA",  :
  Invalid font type
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In text.default(x = 0.5, y = 0.5, labels = "<U+027D>", family = "IPA",  :
  font family not found in PostScript font database

Are you using R in Windows, by the way?

Sverre

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Donald Derrick
<dderrick@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Put it at the beginning of the program in question.  It is just a parameter that selects the fonts used in future pdf or quartz outputs.
>
> If that does not work for you, email me direct and I'll take a look at your particular example.
>
> DD
>
> On 2011-07-20, at 4:21 PM, Sverre Stausland wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  http://pidgin.ucsd.edu/pipermail/r-lang/mailman.ucsd.edu/pipermail/ling-r-lang-l/2010-October/000110.html
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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