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issue with µ symbol in pdf figure #11

Open dlangenfeld opened 4 years ago

dlangenfeld commented 4 years ago

I noticed that the "µ" symbol shows up normally in the figures in my .md and .html files but it shows up as a weird different symbol in the .pdf file. Any ideas?

madelinestanley commented 4 years ago

I had a similar problem, except it only changed the symbol when I committed it and pushed it back to github. My pdf figure on my computer includes the mu symbol, but not when its hosted in github. I wonder if greek symbols are not recognized the same between github and R.

dlangenfeld commented 4 years ago

@madelinestanley I think you are right, the symbol gets lost in translation somewhere between R and GitHub

peperg commented 4 years ago

Hello all!

I just uploaded the solutions to the assignment. My µ shows up ok on both the .png images embedded in the .md as well as in the final .pdf image.

This is definitely an issue with the encoding in the transition to .pdf.

My suggestion for now would be the use the cairo_pdf device as i suggested for when having trouble with fonts. Give it a try and if it doesn't work then we can look at something else. Unfortunately this is a common issue with not a very straight forward solution.

are you both on PC?

Pepe

madelinestanley commented 4 years ago

Yes I am on a PC. The document is fine on R and on my computer pdf, however, just not when I push to Github.