Re: Font aliasing?
Re: Font aliasing?
- Subject: Re: Font aliasing?
- From: "Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:55:48 -0700
Not sure what the %d is all about. That doesn't look right.
Look at the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.alias, and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.alias for example alias files.
The closest to your "standard symbols l" may be:
$ xlsfonts|grep symbol
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-95-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific
Create an alias file, called fonts.alias:
-adobe-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
--adobe-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific
To update the X11 server font path:
$ cd $HOME
$ mkdir .fonts
$ cd .fonts
$ mv ~/fonts.alias .
$ mkfontdir
$ xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts
trt
I am running an application (MATLAB) on a linux box using a remote X
display on my mac.
When the application starts up (it uses a JAVA virtual machine), it
complains about some missing fonts.
I think it is looking for some symbol fonts.
monospaced.0=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-*-%d-*-*-m-*-
iso8859-1
monospaced.1=-*-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific
monospaced.italic.0=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-i-normal-sans-*-%d-*-
*-m-*-iso8859-1
monospaced.italic.1=-*-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific
monospaced.bold.0=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-*-%d-*-*-m-
*-iso8859-1
monospaced.bold.1=-*-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific
monospaced.bolditalic.0=-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-i-normal-sans-*-%d-
*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
monospaced.bolditalic.1=-*-standard symbols
l-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific
that are not available on my Mac.
How do I configure X11 so that it is not bothered by this request for
fonts it doesn't know about. Can I set up an alias somehow to a font
it does know about?
Alan
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Thomas R. Treadway
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