Dear All,

I am having difficulties with creating PostScript documents using R graphics device.  Here are some assumptions I'm working under:

(1) the only way to show an alpha glyph is using the Symbol font.

(2) no encoding allows for regular latin characters and Symbols such as alpha.

Basically, I generate the postscript from R graphics, and the part that I want to change looks like this:


which I manually change to:


Is there a better way to accomplish this?  Can I simply include some command to temporarily change fonts?  Is there a way to change the encoding files to include an extra glyph?  I've tried all of the above, but cannot do so.  The hack method works fine for my purposes; however, it is difficult to imagine that this would work for another user.  Your help is appreciated.
 

F. Scott Dahlgren
http://fdahlgr.mooo.com/