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Date:      Mon, 05 Aug 1996 06:07:44 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SciTeXt (font problem) 
Message-ID:  <199608051307.GAA01517@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Aug 1996 08:17:24 EDT." <Pine.OSF.3.95.960805081520.19601D-100000@maryann.eng.umd.edu> 

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Given that scitext is *alpha* my choice is 1 and in fact I would keep it
that way for a long time -- a good word processor will be very demanding
on the server by way of possibly requesting all sorts of odd fonts.

However , it is not that difficult to add to your .xinitrc
xset +fp /usr/local/scitext/fonts &


I sure hope that scitext excites people enough to further develop it.


	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Chuck Robey :
> 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 ad
d
> > > 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).
> 
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