Hi again! Thanks for all the replys and thanks for the encourageing words Richard! A major part of the problem seems to have been a missing fonts.alias file in the /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1 directory. I found a post on that in the FAQ on the Wolfram site a while ago, but I didn't understood what it was and besides it was under the 4.2 issues. The file containd a mapping from adobe-helvetica to bitstream-swiss and from adobe-times to adobe-utopia. A
xlsfonts |grep helvetica (or times) shows that I have none of them installed on them systeme before I run Mathematica and apparently thats the fonts mathematica whanted. I still think, however, that it's quite strange that it doesn't substitute to courier, or whatever, and that it's even more strange that the fonts disapeared before I added the alias file. However, Mathematica seems to work quite ok now, though it still complains abit about some missing fonts (times weight plain, slant plain(?) and Symbolic i think), so I think it'll have to do for now. If I'll have any further success I'll let you know! regards Johan Ps. No Thomas, I don't run a font server as far as I know! Thanks for your letter, it didn't find it's way to the list though (strange)! tisdagen den 18 maj 2004 11.42 skrev richard lyons: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 05:15, Johan Renström wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Since my two last posts were a bit to boring to be read I thought > > I'd do a last desperate try from another pint of view. > > I thought it was quite interesting - and was waiting to hear the > answers. I had a chancce to play with an adapted mathematica a > couple of years ago (on windoze) when I did an Open Uni course in > physics. I was impressed, and regretted that it was time-limited. > But I digress... > > > I have a program that is shipped with some fonts. But, when I add > > the path to these fonts at the bottom in the XF86Config-4 fontpath > > section, Operas menus disapeare and the login screen in KDE has no > > text. > > Since nobody else answered, I'll make a suggestion from ignorance: > Are there fonts with the same names as the ones those apps are trying > to use? Your additions to the fontpath might be causing them to > access specialist mathematica fonts by mistake. Could be a question > of order in the path if so. Or a shell script to switch the path > when mathematica runs - but I have no idea how you limit the scope of > that to the environment of one app. > > [...] > > > sorry for the bad English! > > I'm just glad I'm not trying to reply in Swedish - or whatever.
