Hi Bill, thanks for the answer. I found the cmdist mail below from 1997 from you in the archives that's why I asked. It seems, the Sonata font was on CCRMAs linux machines one time.
Best, Orm > linux fonts and CMN (Bill Schottstaedt) > > Date: Mon, 19 May 97 09:36:17 PDT > From: bil (To: cmdist) > To: cmdist > Subject: re: linux fonts and CMN > > CMN does run in ACL 4.3 under Linux. The following > installs the Sonata font, but I haven't yet found a > postscript previewer or tried to send the CMN output to > a printer: > > cd Sonata.font > cp Sonata /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/Sonata.pfa > > ;;; this works because the Sonata portion of the directory > ;;; is actually the same format as the thing Linux calls > ;;; a .pfa file > > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 > > ;;; now su root if you can > > emacs fonts.dir > add 1 to the first line (in my case I changed 16 to 17) > add this line: > > Sonata.pfa -adobe-sonata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific > > ;;; this is the X form of the font spec > > do the same in fonts.scale (this step may not be necessary -- I > omitted it and things seemed to work). > > Now if fonts.alias does not exist on the Type1 directory, create > it (i.e. touch fonts.alias), then edit it and add the line: > > Sonata -adobe-sonata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific > > ;;; this creates the alias "Sonata" for the X font spec > > now return to your home directory as yourself (not root, I think), > and > > xset fp rehash > > ;;; this tells X to update the font path info > > Now you should be able to use the Sonata font! (i.e. xfd -fn Sonata) _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list Cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
