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Re: fonts and symbolic links
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> > > lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> > ^
> > Shouldn't this be
> >
> > lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> >
>
> actually yes. missed that when copying the line
Sorry for the mess-up above, that should have been "`cygpath -W`/Fonts"
(but you still need the quotes).
> > > mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows
> >
> > Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too?
>
> no. mkfontscale (and mkfontdir which is just a wrapper for mkfontscale)
> can handle all true type fonts.
>
> the wrapper mkfontdir looks like
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale -b -s -l "$@"
>
> -b: read bitmap fonts
> -s: ignore scalable fonts
>
> the correct way to setup a font dir is
> mkfontscale $dir # scan Truetype fonts
> mkfontscale -b -s -l $dir # scan bitmap fonts
Ah, I see now. One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all
of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252". I found
that I needed to add an explicit "-a microsoft-cp1251" flag if I wanted
the "microsoft-cp1251" encoding to be included. Why is that, and where is
the default list of encodings coming from?
Igor
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