I tried Century Schoolbook, size 17, and still have no bold text. (I have no bold fonts with Michele's settings of course).
I think I will try installing freetype2, as it seems the most relevants package making a difference between Michele's and mine (although I know nothing about fonts actually). As for xft2-dev, I have a set of pango-xft2 packages, are they equivalent and/or compatible with xft2-dev? I have run xfontpath dump, and got: /sw/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript/Type1/ /sw/lib/X11/fonts/konsole/ /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf/ Can anyone tell me if I must rebuild my mozilla or firefox after I have installed a new package, to expect to see any difference? Clemence > > I just had a little bit of success to get SOME bold fonts. In the > Firefox font panel, there was no specific font chosen for serif, > sans-serif, or monospace. When I changed the serif font to "Century > Schoolbook", I started getting bold fonts. > > The catch, the font size needs to be at least 17 (I'm on a 20" Cinema > Display) before I can see the bold. If I try any other font (like > Times, Courier, Lucida, Comic Sans) at any size, I never see the bold. > Only Century Schoolbook works. > > Also, I installed applesystemfonts and xft2-dev and rebuilt all of > firefox before testing the bolding again, so I'm not sure which of the 3 > changes actually made a difference. The bad part is, of course, that > only one font works and not always. > > Mich�le, what are your font settings in Mozilla? And have you tried > building Firefox to see if you also get bold with it? Its dependencies > are a subset of Mozilla's, so it shouldn't take long to build and test. > > We're all running Apple's X11, so at least that doesn't seem to be the > issue. > > I'm going to try and install mozilla-1.7.5-1. Here's the list of > dependencies that I don't have. Except for freetype2, none of them seem > important for font drawing (and when I was packaging firefox, having > freetype2 around didn't do anything for me). So I'm not sure which > missing dependency (if that is indeed the issue) is affecting the font > display. > > automake1.8 > compress-zlib-pm581 > freetype2-hinting-dev freetype2-hinting-shlibs > gconf2 gconf2-dev gconf2-shlibs > gnome-base gnome-mime-data > gnome-vfs2-ssl-dev gnome-vfs2-ssl-shlibs > html-parser-pm581 html-tagset-pm > intltool > lcms lcms-shlibs > libbonobo2 libbonobo2-dev libbonobo2-shlibs > libmng2 libmng2-shlibs > libtool14 libtool14-shlibs > libwww-pm581 > mozilla-browser mozilla-chatzilla mozilla-dom-inspector > mozilla-js-debugger mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-shlibs > orbit2 orbit2-dev orbit2-shlibs > popt popt-shlibs > shared-mime-info > uri-pm581 > xml-parser-pm581 > > Hanspeter > > -- > Hanspeter Niederstrasser, Ph.D. Dept. of Cell Biology > hniederstrasser at cellbiology.wustl.edu Campus Box 8228 > Cooper Lab 660 South Euclid Avenue > Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63110 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting > Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time > by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. > Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Ce qui se concoit bien s'exprime clairement. - http://www.crea.polytechnique.fr/personnels/fiches/magnien.htm 01 55 55 86 27 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
