On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 5:34 AM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel > free to point me to such a place if one exists. > > ---- > > Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some > fonts available to X. > > My understanding of the process is: > > 1. Put the fonts in a directory. > 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory. > 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory. > 4. run xset +fp <directory name> > > So what I did: > > 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts. > 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts. > > At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about > the wrapping): > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -> > /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm -> > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -> > /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb > > 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts. > > This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents: > > 33 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni > CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9 > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u > N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern > n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 > > 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts. > > This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale. > > 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes > ~/.fonts in its path, but running > xset q > did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list. > > So I ran: > xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts > > But now we come to the problem. This command returns: > > xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > Directory missing fonts.dir > Incorrect font server address or syntax > > But: > a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user. > b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir > c. The syntax looks OK. > > So what is xset complaining about? > > (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I > create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since > the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor > how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.) > > Doc > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR > There are no dot in /home/n7dr/fonts/ path. Should be /home/n7dr/.fonts/ -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
