[R] R GUI dies using postcript() in Windows XP Pro

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What is intended to happen is for it silently to use font 1.  I am 
committing a fix to ensure that happens in the one spot that got missed.

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Gavin Simpson wrote:

> Dear Andy, Duncan and Brian
> 
> Cheers for your replies
> 
> That font.main thing is something I didn't pick up on when I cropped my 
> colleagues code down to a small example.
> 
> font.main works fine with pointsize = 8, *if* you set font.main to one 
> of the values given in the entry for font in ?par. The code example I 
> posted works if I set font.main to 3 (for italics) for example, which is 
> what was produced with font.main = 16 on a windows() device.
> 
> And Brian has confirmed that postcript devices have only 5 fonts in R.
> 
> Not really a /feature/ though, I'd expect an error message telling me to 
> not be so stupid next time... ;-)
> 
> Once again, thank you all for your replies.
> 
> Gav
> 

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