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[Shigeru Mase]

 Dear Paul,

On Thu, 4 May 2000 10:03:39 +1200
"Paul Murrell" <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

paul> two things:
paul> (i)  the hershey vector fonts are from the GNU plotutils package - i.e.,
paul> someone else did all the hard work; we just connected it to R :)

I can find that the hershey vector fonts are installed with Ghostview. 

paul> (ii)  since I do not have a Japanese keyboard (and do not know Japanese !)
paul> this stuff has not been extensively tested.  It will be good to have someone
paul> use it so that we can make sure it is working properly.
paul> 

paul> You should only require the standard R package.
paul> 
paul> Apologies if these are silly questions, but just in case ...
paul> (i)  did you type help(Hershey) from the R command-line ?

Yes.

paul> (ii)  do you have the help installed ?  e.g., what do you get
paul> if you type help(sum) ?

Yes, the help system arw working. the command "help(text)" returns a 
correct response. But "help(Japanese)"


paul> 
paul> Hershey fonts are vector fonts (i.e., the characters are defined
paul> by a set of points;  the characters can be drawn by just joining
paul> the points by straight lines).  The Hershey character definitions
paul> are included in the standard R distribution.
paul> 
paul> paul
paul> 
paul> 
paul> 
paul> 

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Shigeru Mase <mase at is.titech.ac.jp>
  Dept. Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology,
  Oh-Okayama 2-12-1, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan
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