From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
Date: December 24, 2007 10:58:45 PST
To: Roger Melly <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Installing a new font
Well, for the record, I think you're confusing the two font systems
(fontconfig which is in userland, and the server-provided fonts)
which is quite common... heck, it confuses me sometimes. The server
currently doesn't support providing fonts in user home directories.
This is something we hope to remedy but is a rather low priority
because server provided fonts are the way of the past.
Additionally, this is something that isn't supported on linux either.
Dropping fonts into ~/.fonts should work for fontconfig, but you
don't run 'mkfontdir', you run 'fc-cache'. You should then see that
font in the output of 'fc-list'. If you want the font to be
provided by the server, you should drop it into /usr/X11/lib/X11/
fonts/TTF then run mkfontdir and mkfontsale on that dir.
BTW, I just noticed you were commenting on 10.4, not 10.5. The
information I just wrote is definitely true for 10.5... I am not
sure about 10.4.
--Jeremy
On Dec 23, 2007, at 20:44, Roger Melly wrote:
Hello, I would like to do something that is quite simple with
standard Unix
and GNU/Linux hosted X servers, i.e., add a new font. I have the
font as a
TTF. For GNU/Linux it is simply necessary to copy the TTF to
~/.fonts/ and
run mkfontdir in that directory.
Apple as usual seem to have made things much less straightforward.
What magic is required to make MacOS 10.4 X11 see the font ? I've
tried
copying it to various places such as /System/Library/Fonts
and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ as well adding FontPath specs.
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but the server resolutely refuses to load
the font.
--
______
Roger.
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