If you read German, take a look at some fossil discussion in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2003/02/msg00510.html
where similar difficulties appeared a couple of years ago. The critical paragraph is the one where the responder says (roughly translated): I've played around with this a little more and found the only usable method of installing fonts in the system compatibly with defoma to be the inconvenient way of individual font packages. It's certainly tedious, but it works. Above all, you must build the hint-files yourself, so that it can sort out the fonts. That's fairly tedious for each font, and the front-ends [i.e., dfontmgr] do nothing but ask for the same data, which can get pretty tiresome. ... Then he gives an example for Arial, with all the details. The problem is that it's difficult for the average user to figure out what the answers ought to be for all these items. How do you know what are all the Charset values to use, for example? A while back, I tried the defoma script that generated hint-files, and found that it produced a very bare-bones file for each font. I suspect that this is a problem with a lot of fonts: not enough info in the hintfiles to allow the substitution engines in defoma and fontconfig to make the right choices. I suspect that it's these deficient hint-files that are letting the software make bad choices; the programs could be completely bug-free, but with missing or misleading info in the hint-files, what can it do? One thing that might be useful would be to try to standardize the terminology used. For example, defoma seems to choose a slightly different set of terms to describe font weights, widths, etc. than does fontconfig. The latter lists a set of values for these things in the fonts.conf manpage; for defoma, you have to go sort through the perl scripts scattered all over the system to see what values it looks for. [While on the subject of terminology: see http://faustus.dyn.ca/mom/momdoc/appendices.html for yet another incompatible naming system, devised for groff fonts! ] -- Andy Young -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]