font: Set font

In flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting

Set font

Description

Change font of selected rows and columns of a flextable.

Fonts impact the readability and aesthetics of the table. Font families refer to a set of typefaces that share common design features, such as 'Arial' and 'Open Sans'.

'Google Fonts' is a popular library of free web fonts that can be easily integrated in flextable with function gdtools::register_gfont(). When output is HTML, the font will be automatically added in the HTML document.

Usage

font(
  x,
  i = NULL,
  j = NULL,
  fontname,
  part = "body",
  cs.family = fontname,
  hansi.family = fontname,
  eastasia.family = fontname
)

Arguments

x	a flextable object
i	rows selection
j	columns selection
fontname	single character value, the font family name. With Word and PowerPoint output, the value specifies the font to be used to format characters in the Unicode range (U+0000-U+007F).
part	partname of the table (one of 'all', 'body', 'header', 'footer')
cs.family	Optional font to be used to format characters in a complex script Unicode range. For example, Arabic text might be displayed using the "Arial Unicode MS" font. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.
hansi.family	optional. Specifies the font to be used to format characters in a Unicode range which does not fall into one of the other categories. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.
eastasia.family	optional font to be used to format characters in an East Asian Unicode range. For example, Japanese text might be displayed using the "MS Mincho" font. Used only with Word and PowerPoint outputs. Its default value is the value of fontname.

See Also

Other sugar functions for table style: align(), bg(), bold(), color(), empty_blanks(), fontsize(), highlight(), italic(), keep_with_next(), line_spacing(), padding(), rotate(), tab_settings(), valign()

Examples

library(gdtools)
fontname <- "Brush Script MT"

if (font_family_exists(fontname)) {
  ft_1 <- flextable(head(iris))
  ft_2 <- font(ft_1, fontname = fontname, part = "header")
  ft_2 <- font(ft_2, fontname = fontname, j = 5)
  ft_2
}

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