Re: fonts in Cygwin
Michael Denk wrote (schrieb, a écrit): On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote: Actually I got Helvetica Narrow working. I don't know how Debian handles Well, I did not, so far :-(. I have not done everything *exactly* as you describe, because that was not possible, but I think I was close enough that it should have worked, unless I overlooked something important. XXX.alias files as normally only files named fonts.alias are recognized as aliases. I appended the content from this file to fonts.alias, did some I just copied gsfonts-x11.alias to fonts.alias, because there was no previous fonts.alias in Type1. renaming (e.g. medium vs. regular), copied the fonts from the ghostscript fonts dir to the Type1 fonts dir and called font-update to rebuild fonts.dir, fonts.scale and the font cache. I did that, too, except for the renaming, since I did not know which fonts to rename to what. Incidentally, there is no man page of font-update and font-update -h does not give any information either. Is it usable only to rebuild fonts.dir and the other stuff in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts? I had to remove some of the copied fonts, because font-update did not find font sizes and font weights for them. These were all the fonts starting with hr. But then font-update worked through the directory without error message, and I restarted the X server. After calling xfig, I had to notice that now xfig did not even find the Times Roman fonts, not to speak of Helvetica Narrow... Fortunately (or rather, cautiously), I had made a backup of the Type1 directory and after removing the spoilt one and replacing it by the backup, everything worked as before - that is, most fonts were present, but Helvetica Narrow was not. (But when starting xfig, I always get a warning: startup scroll not found, which I don't really understand and which does not seem to affect its functioning.) After restarting the X server this worked for some fonts in Xfig or xfontsel, others crashed the applications. I found some information on the internet that Debian users who have installed gsfonts-x11 experienced similar behavior to some extent. I wrote some nifty installation script that does all the work in setting up the mappings to the ghostscript fonts but as long as I don't know why some fonts cause these crashes I prefer not to publish it. This could take a while. My question is then: did you use the ghostscript fonts from your cygwin installation (this is what I did) or those from some other Linux/Unix system? What I'll probably try next is to get only Helvetica-Narrow running, i.e. copy only those few fonts, because they are actually the only ones I need in addition to those working already. But I do not understand why the system lost the Times Roman fonts. How does the fonts.alias mechanism work? I read that you can have one fonts.alias for several directories. But there was one in almost every font directory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts. And the Times fonts are not in Type1, apparently, so I don't understand how changing directory Type1 and none of the others can render them invisible... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: fonts in Cygwin
Michael Denk wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote: I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the normal Helvetica. But some of the fonts are not there, in particular Helvetica-Narrow. Ah, now I see your problem. Doesn't work for me either with Helvetica-Narrow. So I don't get Helvetica-Narrow, nor, I believe ZapfChancery. In any case there are several fonts missing, including Helvetica-Narrow. Are there people out there who have them in their default cygwin installation? I did some research: The Postscript fonts that Ghostscript uses aren't normally available to X programs, e.g. Xfig. This causes the error messages about missing fonts you mentioned. You mentioned the Debian package gsfonts-x11. This package solves the above problem by telling X of the existence of the Ghostscript fonts. I'm currently working on a similar solution for Cygwin---stay tuned. Sure, I will :-). I am very interested in getting this to work, since I mostly use Helvetica Narrow in my slides. I have tried to find out where these fonts are on my work computer, where everything is available under ubuntu, but I have not yet fully figured out how to use them on other computers. It seems that Helvetica Narrow is actually some Nimbus Sans font and there is a file /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/gsfonts-x11.alias containing the mapping. So maybe this is part of the way to tell X of the existence of the Ghostscript fonts, but I doubt it is the complete picture. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: fonts in Cygwin
Michael Denk wrote (schrieb, a écrit): On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote: I have xfig installed under cygwin. The program runs fine, but if I try to input text at size 30 in font Helvetica (which I often do for transparencies), then it does not find the fonts and displays the text as an ugly 12pt times roman. WJFFM. I have installed all font packages for the X Server, though. I'm guessing the fonts you are lacking are in the package xorg-x11-fnts. You can find it under the category X11 in the Cygwin setup program. If installing this package doesn't help try installing the other font packages as well. I looked at my installation. I have the xorg-x11-fnts (and I believe all other font packages), and reinstalling them did not change things. However, I noted that I did not completely realize the nature of the problem: I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the normal Helvetica. But some of the fonts are not there, in particular Helvetica-Narrow. This was just the first font problem I noticed, since Helvetica-Narrow is the font I most often use in transparencies, and I had taken some xfig-generated transparencies from my work computer to my home computer to modify them, which I could not do for lack of the font. I then generalized the problem incorrectly, assuming that *all* larger fonts were missing, probably, because xfig does not replace a missing font by a similar one but just by Times-Roman, size 12. So I don't get Helvetica-Narrow, nor, I believe ZapfChancery. In any case there are several fonts missing, including Helvetica-Narrow. Are there people out there who have them in their default cygwin installation? Now I'm asking myself, whether the font files are different on different linux systems. Since I have fonts in the same directories on my work computer (running under linux) as under cygwin on my home computer, and they seem to have the same names (I'll have to verify that in detail), I wonder whether the problem could be simply solved by copying the missing font files by hand from my work computer to my home computer... -- Klaus Kassner -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
fonts in Cygwin
I have xfig installed under cygwin. The program runs fine, but if I try to input text at size 30 in font Helvetica (which I often do for transparencies), then it does not find the fonts and displays the text as an ugly 12pt times roman. A similar problem on my work computer running under linux was solved by the administrator doing an atp-get to install gsfonts-X11. How do I do a similar thing with cygwin? (Ghostscript and ghostview are installed, but apparently that does not automatically provide the fonts mentioned.) -- Klaus Kassner -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Initial run of BASH doesn't initialize home directory
Tom Smith schrieb: With all due respect, Igor, I think you missed my point. The point is this: 1) I ran the Cygwin setup.exe and the Cygwin/X setup.exe (a distinction made by the cygwin.com web site itself) on the same computer. This distinction is apparently confusing. The two files setup.exe are identical. 2) The Cygwin/X installation gave me grief as mentioned in my initial post. 3) The Cygwin installation gave me no grief and worked perfectly.
