On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks likes the the laptop is using different fonts with incorrect font > > metrics. This could happen because it has a different screen resolution, > or > > one of the systems is set to use scalable fonts or it is giving metrics for > > one fonts and using another or .... > >
I found a fix for the funny font overlaps, and it was quite by accident. In case there are other Fedora users for whom this might appear, I would like to close the thread with this. In the livna repository, there is a package called freetype-freeworld-2.3.5-3.lvn8 After installing that, the fonts on screen are fine. I do not understand exactly why this works, or why freetype-freeworld is not in the freetype distribution all along. The package is described thusly, and you will notice it has the same magic words that Professor Ripley used--hints and glyphs: $ rpm -qi freetype-freeworld Name : freetype-freeworld Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.3.5 Vendor: rpm.livna.org Release : 3.lvn8 Build Date: Tue 18 Sep 2007 10:28:30 AM CDT Install Date: Sun 13 Apr 2008 11:16:45 PM CDT Build Host: plague-builder.livna.org Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: freetype-freeworld-2.3.5-3.lvn8.src.rpm Size : 685309 License: FTL or GPLv2+ Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sat 22 Sep 2007 10:23:19 AM CDT, Key ID 71295441a109b1ec Packager : rpm.livna.org <http://bugzilla.livna.org> URL : http://www.freetype.org Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine Description : The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library. This version is compiled with the patented bytecode interpreter and subpixel rendering enabled. It transparently overrides the system library using ld.so.conf.d. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.