Re: [jessie] how to use fonts from cm-super-x11 in X?
D. R. Evans wrote:
> Siard wrote on 07/15/2015 08:00 AM:
> > D. R. Evans wrote:
> >> The description of the package cm-super-x11 says:
> >> "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This
> >> package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse
> >> the cm-super fonts as X11 screen fonts."
> >>
> >> Nice, but how does one actually use these fonts once the package
> >> has been installed?
> >>
> >> I ran xlsfonts, and the output seems no different; in particular, I
> >> see no trace of any cm fonts in the listing.
> >
> > In xlsfonts, these fonts are named 'computer modern'.
> > xlsfonts may need a restart to show them.
>
> I rebooted before I posted, because I know that fonts sometimes need
> various things to be restarted before being recognised, and I thought
> that a reboot was the cleanest way to be certain that everything
> would be initialised properly.
>
> They still don't appear:
>
> ----
>
> n7dr@shack:~$ xlsfonts | grep comp
> n7dr@shack:~$
>
> ----
I have Stretch, where they do appear.
No idea what could be wrong with xlsfonts in Jessie.
> > I can see these fonts in LibreOffice, also named 'Computer Modern'.
> >
> > The X11 fonts are located in /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 and have
> > names like sfrm1000.afm & sfrm1000.pfb etc. They are just links to
> > the Tex fonts, located in /usr/share/texmf/fonts.
>
> Yep; those links are there.
If these links are not broken, i.e. either cm-super or cm-super-minimal
(TeX font package) is installed, so the fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts
exist, then these fonts should be available, e.g. in LibreOffice.
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