Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote: > Thanks Alex re the font-cache explanation. > > As for the one size issue -- I understand that TrueType fonts are scalable, > but the question is whether the fact that xlsfonts etc will only show "size > 0" won't confuse applications. I as a human will

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-08 Thread nitzan shaked
e values... N. - Original Message - From: Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2005 10:51 am Subject: Re: TrueType problem + question > On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote: > > > Alex, Thomas > > > > Thank you both. It works, of cours

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote: > Alex, Thomas > > Thank you both. It works, of course... In the mean time I figured out that I > do need to run mkfontdir. There are a couple of follow-up questions: > > 1) What is FT's "font cache"? Is that related to the fonts.cache-1? I assume > if

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-08 Thread nitzan shaked
Alex, Thomas Thank you both. It works, of course... In the mean time I figured out that I do need to run mkfontdir. There are a couple of follow-up questions: 1) What is FT's "font cache"? Is that related to the fonts.cache-1? I assume if I just delete it it will get rebuilt. 2) There is no fo

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn -microsoft

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) > > use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. > > > > > > In xterm: > > xterm -fn -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 xterm -fa "Tahoma 24" -fs 24

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, nitzan shaked wrote: > (Newbie -- please pardon trivial mistakes. I did read the Cygwin/X user guide > and the FAQ of course before posting) > > Hello all > > Running Cygwin/X release 6.8.2.0-2 to connect to an XDMCP. > > Cygwin/X compains "could not init font path element

TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread nitzan shaked
(Newbie -- please pardon trivial mistakes. I did read the Cygwin/X user guide and the FAQ of course before posting) Hello all Running Cygwin/X release 6.8.2.0-2 to connect to an XDMCP. Cygwin/X compains "could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/". The directory exists, has