On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 08:20 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> Hi Drew,
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:19:37 +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
>
> > It's importance for me is that we have access to Mathematica installed on
> > the central university computer. When I run it from a terminal on my
> > computer, Mathematica complains about fonts not being available. So
> > this is an example of why the ttf-mathematica4.1 is very important!
>
> I investigated a bit more and have some questions.
>
> * Doesn't MathematicaPlayer help you with fonts problem?
> I have a system with MathematicaPlayer(perhaps ver6) and
> find it has Mathematica fonts under (in my case)
> /usr/local/Wolfram/MathematicaPlayer/6.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/
I haven't heard of MathematicaPlayer before so I haven't tried it.
What I can say, however, is that I installed a test version of
Mathematica 7 on my computer. It does *not* help the remote access
problem (Mathematica 5.1) on the remote computer:
$ mathematica
xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
I imagine that's because the locally installed Mathematica fonts are in
their own folder, /usr/local/Wolfram, and are not registered with the
general X configuration.
Curiously, if I run Mathematica 7 from the remote computer, then it
starts up fine with no font problem.
> If it fixes the problem for you I believe there is no need
> to provide the package any more and I'll request removal of
> the package.
Since installing Mathematica 7 does not fix the problem, I assume that
MathematicaPlayer does not fix it either. That means your font package
is still useful for the remote installation case, since it registers the
fonts with X.
> * Mathematica fonts of ver.7 includes not only ttf but also
> type1 (and afm), bdf, and I wonder if only ttf is enough for
> your purpose or type1 etc. are also necessary.
> If type1 is necessary too, ttf-mathematica is not an appropriate
> name and I should change a name to something like mathematica-fonts
> and might change drastically packaging methods.
> Further, I don't have an environment to test a package ;-)
I suspect ttf is sufficient, but I don't know for sure.
I'm happy to test any deb files and provide feedback.
Does STIX provide replacement fonts which Mathematica should be able to
use? I can try it when its deb is available.
Drew
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