Thanks for pointing out that OIT page. I'd never seen it before. My approach was always just to copy the fonts from the server and then include them using xset on the local machine.
Nick Christopher Conroy wrote: > I've never used Mathematica before this week, and I ran into some > serious difficulties getting it to work over X11 (off WAM or GLUE). > > At first, it would complain on startup that I didn't have the > necessary fonts installed. Apparently, Mathematica uses it's own > (non-standard) fonts. I found a zip of some BDF fonts which I added to > my local font path by doing 'xset +fp /home/chris/BDF/', and that > stopped the error messages. Except, when I went to evaluate anything, > it would segfault. > > So then I poked around and found this (outdated) OIT help page on the > subject: > http://www.helpdesk.umd.edu/topics/applications/mathstat/mathematica/161/ > the xfs -config command produced an error for me, and I also found the > directions a bit unclear (i.e. which machine are they referring to? my > local machine or the glue/wam box I'm currently logged into?) > > Since I needed to get it to work fast for a HW assignment, I simply > copied all the fonts from the path given in the OIT help page to my > local machine and added that location to my font path. From that point > on, everything seemed to work. So, it seems like a decent solution to > me. If anyone else has a better way, let me know. Otherwise, perhaps > we should ask OIT to update the help page? > > P.S. When X11 forwarding an application, turn off numlock as it can > interfere with certain keystrokes (e.g. carriage return) > > -- > Christopher Conroy
