On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > 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. > > it was but recently mkfontdir had support for TTF fonts and ttmkfdir was not > needed. > > > 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) > > Hm. That should be possible. > > something like > > mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows ^ Shouldn't this be
lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows ? > mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too? Igor > bye > ago -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw