From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 5 05:17:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14592 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA14587 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 05:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.22]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27016; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20660; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:17:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: maryann.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:17:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SciTeXt (font problem) In-Reply-To: <199608050940.LAA05168@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > > > > > Desired Font not in Cache - loading !!! > > > ERROR:Font could not be loaded by X-Server !bgate# > > > > > > The window pops up for the half of a second and then the app dies. > > > > I had this problem at first too, just go into your XF86Config file and add > > the directory /usr/local/scitext/dof to your fontpath list. Don't worry > > about mkfontdir, it already had a dir in the directory. > > Which raises the question: Which is better policy for installing fonts > under X: > > 1) adding an arbitrary non-evident directory to the fontpath > > 2) creating another directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > > 3) putting the fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc My personal answer? A choice of either options 1 or three, depending on how large the new fonts collection was. For scitext, a new directory, and a warning echoed to stdout telling folks what to do (also in DESCR). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------