On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>#2 - Pd can't find any fonts other than Courier. This might actually >>be a tk problem, based on the following tclsh session: >>% package require Tk >>8.4 >>% font families >>{fangsong ti} fixed {clearlyu alternate glyphs} {courier 10 pitch} >>{open look glyph} {bitstream charter} {song ti} {open look cursor} >>newspaper {clearlyu ligature} mincho {clearlyu devangari extra} >>{clearlyu pua} dotum clearlyu clean nil {clearlyu arabic} {clearlyu >>devanagari} batang {standard symbols l} gothic {clearlyu arabic extra} >> >>That list is short and doesn't include e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono, which is >>installed on my system via the ttf-dejavu package. I've noticed that >>the standard default.pdextended includes >>/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType on the search path, >>and I tried adding /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu to that list >>to see if it would help, but no dice. I couldn't figure out from the >>code how e.g. $sys_searchpath affects Tcl's font search path. Anyone >>have any ideas what could be going wrong? > > I get fewer fonts recognized under wish8.4 than I do under wish8.5. > I just force it to use tcl/tk 8.5 and things seem to look ok. >
Awesome, that did the trick. I ran update-alternatives to set /usr/bin/wish to be provided by /usr/bin/wish8.5, and now fonts are working. Thanks. > > -Jonathan > > -- Jacob Lee [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
