David Wright wrote on 07/15/2015 09:43 PM:
> They appear just fine here (jessie) so it's tricky to think of what's wrong.
>
> Do you have any other type1 fonts that work ok? If there's a mistake
Yep.
$ fc-list :spacing=mono
includes, for example,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/c0582bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Italic
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/c0583bt_.pfb: Courier 10 Pitch:style=Bold
> in the installation scripts, perhaps installing gsfonts/gsfonts-x11
> would regularise something.
>
> Do lines like:
>
> (==) FontPath set to:
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1, <-----
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
> built-ins
>
> appear in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?
yes:
[ 26.650] (**) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
built-ins,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
built-ins
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I don't know why the list appears twice, but that shouldn't do any harm.
>
> Just out of interest, what do you intend using these fonts for?
I wanted to see if any of them looked good in a particular xterm ncurses
application. It's very hard to find a really good monospaced font in which all
the characters look nice. I have always rather liked cmtt (in other
applications), and wanted to try something like that.
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