Re: help with missing font (Fedora 15)
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 05:13:35 -0500 Paul Flo Williams
<flo(a)uk.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
On 09/01/2011 02:36 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
> I am missing a font (for a while) but I can not figure out what it is.
> Basically, I get something like this on my help pages when using R.:
>
>
> 1 lm package:stats R
> Documentatio
> 1 n 2
> 3 Fitting Linear Models
> 4
> 5 Description:
> 6
> 7<80><98>lm<80><99> is used to fit linear models.
It can be us
> 7 ed to carry out
> 8 regression, single stratum analysis of variance and analysis of
> 9 covariance (although<80><98>aov<80><99> may
provide a more co
> 9 nvenient interface
> 10 for these).
> 11
> .....
>
> Can I get rid of those line numbers? This did not happen for me
> before, from what I recall.
You haven't said exactly what you typed to get this output,
I used help(lm) within R.
but if you
have line numbers when using man, you've asked for line numbers
from
the pager that man uses, called "less". I think that typing
echo $LESS
will show that you've got the "-N" option set. unset LESS to stop this
happening. If this isn't the case, then you may have the MANPAGER
variable set to something like "/usr/bin/less -N". man man for details.
Thanks very much for these detailed explanations! This really makes
sense.
The font issue (seeing <80><98>lm<80><99>) is
actually an encoding
issue in the man page you're looking at. It appears that the document
is using Windows curly quotes, which are not at their standard Unicode
positions. This would be a bug in the package that supplies that man page.
Possible. But many of these webpages have not changed. Is it possible
that previously, I this was not an issue because I was using the
Microsoft TrueType Fonts, rather than Liberation now?
Thanks again for the help!
Best wishes,
Ranjan