Re: [e-users] Fonts

[Lyvim X. <lx...@ya...>]

On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:47, you wrote:

Lee wrote to me privately with the following suggestions, and I asked 
his permission to post this to the list; he said OK.  I hope this will 
help someone else with the same problems as I'm dealing with right now.

Lee:
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i really can't address fonts in e per se, but getting fonts right in X 
has been a challenge for this newbie.  :)

your fonts in X are found first in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.  it 
should have some font paths in the Section "Files" section that look 
like

FontPath        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
FontPath        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
FontPath        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
...

and then perhaps you'll have a cryptic entry of something like

FontPath     "unix/localhost:7100"

and this tells X to look at your font server for fonts.  on recent red 
hat systems it's run as a daemon, xfs.  more on that later.

the order that the file entries appear is important, your fonts are 
generated in the order that the X server finds appropriate fonts from 
the list in your config files.

if you edit the XF86Config file to have the fonts listed in a different 
order, i've found that it greatly helps in getting legible fonts.

here's the order of fonts that i have on my system, this works fine for 
me.  note that the *actual* location of your fonts may be different 
(most likely /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, YMMV).

/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/CID,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts

also, make sure you have these entries in your XF86config file in the 
Section "Module" section:
         Load  "extmod"
         Load  "pex5"
         Load  "type1"
         Load  "speedo"
         Load  "bitmap"
         Load  "freetype"
#       Load  "xtt"
...
EndSection

-- >  the "freetype" and "xtt" modules are mutually exclusive and 
relate to how X renders fonts.  pick one and comment out the other.

now for the xfs font server.  my XF86Config file only lists one file 
location for fonts, and that's the strange looking

FontPath     "unix/localhost:7100"

mentioned above.  the configuration for your font server is most likely 
found in the file /etc/X11/fs/config.  the syntax is a little different 
than the XF86Config file, but if you read the file there should be an 
example of what it should look like.

for further reading, consult

http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#fuzzy
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Best Regards and Happy Holidays,

L. Xaphir



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