Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also find the fonts a lot easier than with X - if I need a font I just > drop it into the fonts directory and there it is. Just like it was under > NextStep. I can take any old ont off the web, wrap it as an nfont and > use it. I still can work out how fonts under X11 are supposed to work so > this is a big win for me. Especially as I need multi-lingual fonts > and I still ahvent persuaded X to do that.
Now, this is interesting. As mentioned, exactly the opposite situation is my motive for using back-xlib. I read and write Latin-1 and Latin-3 almost every day. I didn't get back-art to use multilingual fonts and couldn't see how to connect it to the fonts that my X and printer subsystems use. With X, I think it was a case of installing iso10646-1 fonts and setting the system locale to en_GB.UTF-8 before X starts. I probably had to change keyboard layouts too, so that it's all inputtable. (And is there a small good simple utf-8 console editor? vile isn't.) Then, export GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING=NSUTF8StringEncoding and defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSFontAntiAlias YES, NSGlobalDomain GSXEnableFontSet NO and NSGlobalDomain GSFontMask *-iso10646* and then back-xlib should work. There might be more to it than that, but I set this up when installing a while ago and it's survived upgrades since. Hope that helps someone. -- MJR/slef http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
