Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Sorry, Its a typo, all these missing "s"s and the wrong case. I did not paste my actual script Just re-typed it in the mail.Shouldn't this be "fonts.dir" (note the "s")?
The actual code is exactly as you said.
Do you Google: <http://google.com/search?q=ttmkfdir+cygwin>? The matches show that ttmkfdir is not part of the Cygwin/X distribution, so you must've downloaded it separately. FWIW, I'm going to do some work with fonts soon, and might consider making ttmkfdir into a Cygwin package, installable via setup.exe.There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assumed it was a part of cygwin/XFree86.
Any way, it is a part of many Linux distributions. It looks odd that cygwin that leaves within Windows will not take advantage of windows fonts. It should be part of the Basic-X package, this and the 2 fonts I specified in the 2nd letter. Than the post-Install script should prepare the windows fonts directory for use by X. The standard fonts that are now part of cygwin/X should only be optional in a different (none default) package. As they are not necessary. (and not as beautiful). And they triple the size of the base X package. (this is Just my $0.02)
I don't know how much help it is, but I found that a directory of symlinks (instead of a symlink to a directory) works with XWin. So, try something likeI like the mount way so I'll keep it. It might be considered by cygwin1.dll teem to change symlinks to directories from windows shortcut-files to mount points. As it looks like the current way is not so transparent for UNIX applications.
ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
and see if it helps.
And, as you've already noticed, mount will also work.
Igor
Thank you very much for your reply, and grate work to all the X teem. It is totally production ready.
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