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Re: fonts and symbolic links
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> > There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries
> > for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I
> > found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assumed it was a part of
> > cygwin/XFree86.
>
> it was but recently mkfontdir had support for TTF fonts and ttmkfdir was not
> needed.
>
> > Any way, it is a part of many Linux distributions. It looks odd that
> > cygwin that leaves within Windows will not take advantage of windows
> > fonts. It should be part of the Basic-X package, this and the 2 fonts I
> > specified in the 2nd letter. Than the post-Install script should prepare
> > the windows fonts directory for use by X. The standard fonts that are
> > now part of cygwin/X should only be optional in a different (none
> > default) package. As they are not necessary. (and not as beautiful). And
> > they triple the size of the base X package. (this is Just my $0.02)
>
> Hm. That should be possible.
>
> something like
>
> mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
^
Shouldn't this be
lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
?
> mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too?
Igor
> bye
> ago
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