[R] strwidth of bold font

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> Perhaps:
> 
> strwidth(expression(bold("text")))


Or set the default font face ...

plot(1:10)
text(4, 6, "testing", adj=c(0, 0))
segments(4, 6, 4 + strwidth("testing"), 6, col="red")
par(font=2)
text(4, 8, "testing", adj=c(0, 0))
segments(4, 8, 4 + strwidth("testing"), 8, col="red")

Paul


> On 30/10/2007, Roland Kaiser <roland.kaiser at sbg.ac.at> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is there a way to get the string width of the bold typefaces?
>>
>> like: strwidth("text", family = "serif", font = 2).
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Roland
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