Re: some font ugliness with XF86 4.3 on woody

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Don, 2003-03-20 at 17:52, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 17:46, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Don, 2003-03-20 at 17:41, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 17:33, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > On Mit, 2003-03-19 at 22:00, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > sorry for causing noise on the list. Yeah I know, Ralf's XFree 4.3 woody
> > > > > backports are not supported in any way, but maybe someone of you could
> > > > > give me a hint to solve my Problems.
> > > > > I testet X 4.3 debs from Ralf, and they seem to run stable. However, I
> > > > > have some bad fonts when it comes to maple ( a commercial, symbolic math
> > > > > program) math outputs. They didn't come to daylight when using plain
> > > > > woody, nor when using unstable plus Daniel's XFree 4.3 debs.
> > > > >  I've two little screenshots available, maybe someone has an idea, when
> > > > > looking at them. Can this be a fontconfig issue?
> > > > 
> > > > I doubt Maple uses fontconfig yet. I'd rather double check the
> > > > configuration of the traditional X fonts.
> > > 
> > > I just found a way to get the right fonts back with maple: Don't load
> > > the freetype module in XF86Config...
> > 
> > The font paths are probably laid out such that the scalable fonts the
> > freetype module handles come before the bitmap fonts.
> > 
> I've configured 'em that way:
> Section "Files"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

This is redundant and potentially harmful BTW.

>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"

Try moving this...

>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

... here.

>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>         FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
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