rea...@newsguy.com wrote: > "John P. Burkett" <burk...@uri.edu> writes: > >> Suggestions for recovering the old "10x20" font would be appreciated. > > I had the same problem but was able to view from an old backup of var > in a previous OS install what was installed. > > It showed 38 packages.... I'd also like to know what specific fonts > are in which package. > > But I just installed a few from the list. > > This is a guess but I think it was > media-fonts/font-sony-misc that supplied the missing 10x20 and mine > was also missing 9x15. > > Be warned that the above pkg is JUST a GUESS... since I installed > several pkgs and found no way to really tell what is in them. > > Even equery files <font-pkg> doesn't tell you since the naming > apparently changes somewhere between files installed and actual fonts > available. > > > The entire list I now have installed is listed below in case the guess > above is wrong. One in that bunch has it. Look in: > > /var/db/pkg/media-fonts to see what is already installed. > > Severl of those listed below will almost certainly be there. So maybe > it will narrow it down for you a bit. > > =================================================== > font-misc-meltho-1.0.0 > font-sony-misc-1.0.0 > font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.0 > font-misc-misc-1.0.0 > font-sun-misc-1.0.0 > font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0 > font-mutt-misc-1.0.0 > font-util-1.0.1 > font-alias-1.0.1 > font-schumacher-misc-1.0.0 > gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11 >
Thank you very much for your helpful response. Emerging font-misc-misc solved the problem for me. :-) Best regards, John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
