
The implementation of Hershey vector fonts provides a large number of Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji).
Without keyboard support for typing Japanese characters, the only way
to produce these characters is to use special escape sequences: see
Hershey
.
For example, the Hiragana character for the sound "ka" is produced by \#J242b and the Katakana character for this sound is produced by \#J252b. The Kanji ideograph for "one" is produced by \#J306c or \#N0001.
The output from demo(Japanese)
shows tables of the escape
sequences for the available Japanese characters.
# NOT RUN {
require(graphics)
plot(1:9, type = "n", axes = FALSE, frame = TRUE, ylab = "",
main = "example(Japanese)", xlab = "using Hershey fonts")
par(cex = 3)
Vf <- c("serif", "plain")
# }
# NOT RUN {
<!-- % doubled "\" -> can't execute here! -->
# }
# NOT RUN {
text(4, 2, "\\#J244b\\#J245b\\#J2473", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 4, "\\#J2538\\#J2563\\#J2551\\#J2573", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 6, "\\#J467c\\#J4b5c", vfont = Vf)
text(4, 8, "Japan", vfont = Vf)
par(cex = 1)
text(8, 2, "Hiragana")
text(8, 4, "Katakana")
text(8, 6, "Kanji")
text(8, 8, "English")
# }
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