Re: ttf can't work on GNU Emacs(X-window)?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.09.2005 um 07:46 schrieb Richie:

> From some web, I
> know emacs(xwindow) can only use the fonts which the "xlsfonts" command
> shows. So my question now is how to let xlsfonts accept the ttf fonts.

Put the font into, for example, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF.

Invoke (sudo) ttfmkfontdir in this directory to create the fonts.dir 
and fonts.scale files.

Add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ to the X server's search path for 
fonts, by

	either invoking 'xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ ; xset fp 
rehash' (check with xlsfonts)

	or putting /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ into your .xinitrc file where 
xset is used to adapt the search path for fonts (valid with X11's next 
launch).


Andale Mono is a Unicode encoded font, so there shouldn't be any 
problem with missing encodings. OTOH there are versions of ttfmkfontdir 
and mkfontdir (for PostScript Type 1 and bitmapped fonts) that can 
create many font encodings for X from one font file:

-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-adobe-standard
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ibm-cp437
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-10
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-13
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-2
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-3
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-4
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-5
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-9
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-e
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-r
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-u
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-microsoft-cp1252
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-fcd8859-15
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-7
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r
-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru


If you have GTK2+ enabled X clients be aware that they'll launch quite 
late: GTK2 first produces fonts.cache files ...


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  Pete

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