On Tue, 04 Aug 2009, Bruce Edwards wrote:
> Package: gsfonts-x11
> Version: 0.21
> Severity: normal
>
> The Symbol fonts from the URW "Standard Symbol L" and Dingbats are
> listed in applications but always render standard Roman characters "ABC..."
> instead of the actual symbols.
Could you please specify the X11 font names? Otherwise we may miss
understand each other.
I usually test all this using the classic xfontsel program. If I run
xfontsel -pattern '-urw-standard symbols l-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
this gives me 4 lines of text: upper case greek chars, lower case
greek chars, numbers, and some math code (incl. brackets, braces
etc.).
xfontsel tells me that 4 names match, so let's isolate the gsfonts-x11
fonts here:
xfontsel -pattern '-urw-standard symbols
l-*-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific'
this reduces the results to two fonts, which look identical.
Same effects with
xfontsel -pattern '-urw-dingbats-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
This shows me 4 lines of dingbats.
BTW: xfontsel is part of the package x11-utils.
> This was tested both in a wxWidgets standard font selection dialog and
> the program "FONTpage" which is written in Python/GTK using Pango.
I don't know both of these. What packages do I have to install to
reproduce this?
Tschoeeee
Roland
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