Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 03:00:37 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SciTeXt (font problem) Message-ID: <199608051000.DAA14757@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199608050940.LAA05168@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Aug 5, 96 11:40:33 am
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It seems that Christoph P. Kukulies said: > > > 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 Yucko! I've tried to avoid this unless absolutely necessary. Ideally, these directories are *major* things -- not piddly stuff like ".../nethack" or ".../foo". I *guess* you could argue the scitext stuff belongs in this category... (grrr) > 2) creating another directory in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts > > 3) putting the fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc For onesy-twosy (sp? :>) fonts, this is the approach I have used (e.g., ".../nethack")
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