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Create a grid grob from LaTeX

Source: R/latex-grob.R
latex_grob.Rd

latex_grob() returns a grob that draws LaTeX: a formula, a label mixing text and math, or a document body. grid.latex() draws it straight away. The grob works with grobWidth(), grobHeight(), grobX() and grobY().

Usage

latex_grob(
  tex,
  x = grid::unit(0.5, "npc"),
  y = grid::unit(0.5, "npc"),
  default.units = "npc",
  hjust = 0.5,
  vjust = 0.5,
  rot = 0,
  math_font = "",
  max_width = 0,
  tex_style = "",
  input_mode = c("mixed", "math", "document"),
  render_mode = c("typeface", "path"),
  justify = FALSE,
  line_break = c("greedy", "optimal"),
  debug = FALSE,
  name = NULL,
  gp = grid::gpar()
)

grid.latex(tex, ...)

Arguments

tex

LaTeX, as a character string.

x, y

Position.

default.units

Units for x and y when they are numbers.

hjust, vjust

Justification: a number in [0, 1], or a name. hjust takes "left", "center" and "right" (also "centre", "middle", "bbleft", "bbcentre", "bbright"). vjust takes "bottom", "center", "top" and "baseline", which puts the formula's baseline on y.

rot

Rotation in degrees, counter-clockwise.

math_font

Math font: "lete" (Lete Sans Math, the default), "stix" (STIX Two Math), or one added with load_math_font(). See available_math_fonts().

max_width

Width in big points (1/72 inch) at which lines wrap. 0, the default, does not wrap.

tex_style

Force a TeX style: "display", "text", "script" or "scriptscript". "", the default, follows the delimiters. See Details.

input_mode

How tex is read:

  • "mixed" (default): text, with math between $...$ or \(...\). A newline starts a new line.

  • "math": everything is math; write text in \text{}.

  • "document": a LaTeX document body, with paragraphs, numbered headings and displayed equations. Use it with max_width.

render_mode

"typeface" (default) draws glyphs as text, which can be selected in PDF and SVG output. It needs a device such as ragg, svglite or grDevices::cairo_pdf(), and falls back to "path" on others, such as pdf(). "path" draws glyphs as outlines, which works on every device.

justify

If TRUE, wrapped lines are stretched to fill max_width, except the last. Needs max_width.

line_break

"greedy" (default) fills one line at a time. "optimal" chooses the breaks for the whole paragraph. Needs max_width.

debug

If TRUE, draws the bounding box, the baseline (red) and a dot at the origin of each glyph.

name

Grob name.

gp

Graphical parameters from grid::gpar(): col, fontfamily, fontsize, cex and lineheight. See Details.

...

Arguments passed to latex_grob().

Value

latex_grob() returns a grob of class "latexgrob"; grid.latex() draws it and returns it invisibly.

Details

Style

$...$ sets a formula in text style, as in a paragraph; $$...$$ and \[...\] set it in display style, with larger operators and limits above and below. A label with no delimiters is set in text style. tex_style forces one style on the whole formula; "script" and "scriptscript" are the smaller styles of sub- and superscripts. For part of a formula, use \displaystyle, \textstyle, \scriptstyle or \scriptscriptstyle.

Graphical parameters

  • col: the colour. \textcolor overrides it.

  • fontfamily: the font of text, such as "serif" or the name of any installed font. Math uses math_font. Bold and italic come from \textbf{} and \textit{}, not from fontface.

  • fontsize, cex: the size is fontsize * cex points (default 20).

  • lineheight: line spacing (default 1.2).

Errors

Invalid LaTeX is drawn as well as it can be, with one warning listing each problem by line and column. An unknown command is drawn in red. A macro that expands without end, or nesting deeper than 400 levels, is an error.

Pasted LaTeX

LaTeX from a document can be pasted as it is: the output of knitr::kable() or xtable, a table float, or a paper's body with input_mode = "document". The preamble, \maketitle and \label draw nothing, and \caption is drawn where it is written. \ref and \pageref draw ??, \eqref draws (??) and \cite draws [?], with a warning. A footnote is set where it is written, and equations are not numbered.

Not supported: \tag, \verb, \textsc, switches such as \bfseries and \itshape (use \textbf{} and \textit{}, or \bf and \it), the description list, theorem environments and TikZ.

Images

\includegraphics[options]{file} draws a local PNG, JPEG or SVG file. Each format needs a suggested package: png, jpeg, or rsvg and grImport2 for SVG. width, height and scale size the image, keepaspectratio fits it inside both, and angle rotates it; \textwidth means max_width. trim and clip are ignored with a warning. The extension may be left off, and \graphicspath{{dir/}} adds a folder to search.

An SVG stays sharp at any size; a PNG or JPEG warns when it is shown below 150 dpi. PDF and EPS files are not supported. A file that cannot be drawn is an error, except with input_mode = "document", where it warns and draws the file name instead.

Parallel code

Do not draw in forked processes, such as parallel::mclapply() or future::plan(multicore). Use future::plan(multisession) or a socket cluster instead.

See also

latex_dims(), latex_options(), markdown_grob(), geom_latex()

Examples

# \donttest{
  grid::grid.newpage()
  grid.latex(r"($x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac}}{2a}$)",
             y = 0.8, gp = grid::gpar(fontsize = 24))

  # Colour, and a rotated grob
  g <- latex_grob(r"($\colorbox{BurntOrange}{x^{2}} + y^{2}$)",
                  x = 0.3, y = 0.4, rot = 45)
  grid::grid.draw(g)
  grid.latex(r"($\textcolor{red}{x^{2}} + y^{2} = z^{2}$)",
             x = 0.7, y = 0.4, gp = grid::gpar(col = "grey30"))


  # A document body, wrapped at 250 points
  grid::grid.newpage()
  doc <- r"(\section{Results}
The fitted line is
\[ \hat{y} = \beta_0 + \beta_1 x, \]
and its slope, $\beta_1$, is positive.)"
  grid.latex(doc, input_mode = "document", max_width = 250,
             x = 0.05, y = 0.95, hjust = 0, vjust = 1,
             gp = grid::gpar(fontsize = 12))

# }