Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt

[David Morse <svref@yahoo.com>]

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> Subject:
> Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt
> From:
> David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>
> Date:
> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:21:36 -0400
> To:
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> David Morse <svref@yahoo.com> writes:
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> > I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and
> > xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior.  Running
> > "xlsfonts" gets me, among other things:
> >
> > -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans
> > mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> >
> > This makes no sense for a number of reasons.  Its Family is not "vera"
> > but "bitstream".  Its weight is not "bold" but "vera".  Its slant is
> > not "italic" but "bitstream vera sans mono".  What!?
>
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> It looks like something tried to put ttf-bitstream-vera as the foundry
> field, which is wrong.  (Note that your font spec has 16 fields,
> rather than the usual 14.)  Does it work fine without xfstt?

In the sense that vera disappears from the list, yes it works fine.

> Modern
> XFree86, including what's in woody, can natively handle TrueType fonts
> without an external font server.

I'm using the XFree that comes with the gnome-woody-backport.  Can I see 
your FontPaths from /usr/X11/XF86Config-4?  Also, I have

"
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
    Load        "type1"
    Load        "freetype"
"

towards the top of that file.  Is this what you have?


> FWIW, my Bitstream Vera fonts look more like
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> -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
>
> which is much closer to what I'd actually expect.  (On sid, without
> using any X font server at all.)
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