On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:51:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 12:39, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:52:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 10:27, John Hasler wrote: > > > > Rob Weir writes: > > > > > Why is this? XFree86 has been able to handle TrueType fonts (along with > > > > > Type1, bitmap, etc) directly since version 4, so what's up? > > > > > > > > Many of us find fonts insanely complex and completely incomprehensible. We > > > > just bang away at it until something works and then stop. > > > > > > And most HOWTOs were written back before v4... > > > > Hmm, that's a good point...Perhaps we need a new one? > > Probably so. However, since only sarge and some recent Debian-based > distros have defoma, and it does things so differently than standard > XFree, it would have to be distro-specific... I'm fairly sure woody has defoma, too. What does it do differently? I admit I've never figured out how to get defoma to manage non-packaged fonts, but adding /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType to my XF86Config-4 was enough to let me use all the font packages that use defoma already. If you avoid defoma and just drop fonts somewhere and use mkfontdir and mkttfdir, though, then you have to do the exact same steps regardless of if you're using a font server; you just add the directory reference somewhere else. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: USDOJ covert video Perl-RSA S Box Debian IDEA event security
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