Re: font question, xfs locally on cygwin?

[mathog <mathog at caltech dot edu>]

On 17-Jan-2012 11:07, mathog wrote:
> Is
> xfs really needed, or is putting in the right libfreetype bits and
> pieces enough?  The files that go in
> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 on Mandriva, for instance?

So I tried copying the files from Mandriva over and dropping them into 
the
Cygwin distro.  That actually worked, in that the fonts then appeared 
and they looked
good on the screen.  Looks like xfs isn't needed.  However, there was a 
problem with the naming conventions.

This one works on the Mandriva X11 server

 -*-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1

but it doesn't work on the Cygwin X11 server.  The file name there must 
be

-*-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13

The problem seems to be that the font naming convention is slightly 
different.  There
are 3 fields between 120 and iso8859 on the Mandriva machine, but 4 on 
Cygwin/X.  Change in
the font naming conventions between different Xorg versions???

Which Cygwin package would install /usr/share/fonts/Type1 properly?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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