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> In SuSE Linux 7.3 I had lots of handedited fonts.scale.<packagename>
> files, which I merged into a fonts.scale file with
> /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts. I absolutely needed these handedited
> files because the output of ttmkfdir was too bad to generate these
> automatically. I usually started with the output of ttmkfdir, then
> improved it manually and packaged the result together with the font
> rpm.
I think this is the right approach.
> For all packages where mkfontscale produces perfect output, I can
> remove the fonts.scale.<packagename> file completely.
I don't recommend that.
Mapping TrueType and Type 1 font tables to XLFDs is intrinsically an
underspecified task. I want to be able to change the behaviour of
mkfontscale in the future, and the only way for you to protect
yourself from my instabilities is to continue with your SuSEconfig file.
A concrete example: when using mkfontscale on my system, I broke
AbiWord, which can no longer find Arial and Times New Roman (it
expects them to have a weight of -regular- rather than -medium-).
Juliusz
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