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Re: fonts and symbolic links
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Sorry for the mess-up above, that should have been "`cygpath -W`/Fonts"
> (but you still need the quotes).
right.
> > > > mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> > >
> > > Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too?
> >
> > no. mkfontscale (and mkfontdir which is just a wrapper for mkfontscale)
> > can handle all true type fonts.
> >
> > the wrapper mkfontdir looks like
> > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale -b -s -l "$@"
> >
> > -b: read bitmap fonts
> > -s: ignore scalable fonts
> >
> > the correct way to setup a font dir is
> > mkfontscale $dir # scan Truetype fonts
> > mkfontscale -b -s -l $dir # scan bitmap fonts
>
> Ah, I see now. One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all
> of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252". I found
> that I needed to add an explicit "-a microsoft-cp1251" flag if I wanted
> the "microsoft-cp1251" encoding to be included. Why is that, and where is
> the default list of encodings coming from?
Hm. There is a file encodings.dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1.
Does it work if you copy it to the TTF directory?
bye
ago
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