Re: font path issue
Hi again!
Thanks for all the replys and thanks for the encourageing words Richard! A
major part of the problem seems to have been a missing fonts.alias file in
the /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1 directory. I
found a post on that in the FAQ on the Wolfram site a while ago, but I didn't
understood what it was and besides it was under the 4.2 issues. The file
containd a mapping from adobe-helvetica to bitstream-swiss and from
adobe-times to adobe-utopia. A
xlsfonts |grep helvetica (or times)
shows that I have none of them installed on them systeme before I run
Mathematica and apparently thats the fonts mathematica whanted. I still
think, however, that it's quite strange that it doesn't substitute to
courier, or whatever, and that it's even more strange that the fonts
disapeared before I added the alias file.
However, Mathematica seems to work quite ok now, though it still complains
abit about some missing fonts (times weight plain, slant plain(?) and
Symbolic i think), so I think it'll have to do for now. If I'll have any
further success I'll let you know!
regards
Johan
Ps. No Thomas, I don't run a font server as far as I know! Thanks for your
letter, it didn't find it's way to the list though (strange)!
tisdagen den 18 maj 2004 11.42 skrev richard lyons:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:15, Johan Renström wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Since my two last posts were a bit to boring to be read I thought
> > I'd do a last desperate try from another pint of view.
>
> I thought it was quite interesting - and was waiting to hear the
> answers. I had a chancce to play with an adapted mathematica a
> couple of years ago (on windoze) when I did an Open Uni course in
> physics. I was impressed, and regretted that it was time-limited.
> But I digress...
>
> > I have a program that is shipped with some fonts. But, when I add
> > the path to these fonts at the bottom in the XF86Config-4 fontpath
> > section, Operas menus disapeare and the login screen in KDE has no
> > text.
>
> Since nobody else answered, I'll make a suggestion from ignorance:
> Are there fonts with the same names as the ones those apps are trying
> to use? Your additions to the fontpath might be causing them to
> access specialist mathematica fonts by mistake. Could be a question
> of order in the path if so. Or a shell script to switch the path
> when mathematica runs - but I have no idea how you limit the scope of
> that to the environment of one app.
>
> [...]
>
> > sorry for the bad English!
>
> I'm just glad I'm not trying to reply in Swedish - or whatever.
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