On 9/6/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aha! Am I then supposed to unmerge 'media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi' ?
Not sure...but I think it is better to use type1 fonts than bitmap fonts.
I am not sure what determines (where to set up) fallback fonts for when a particular font is not found; e.g.: if -*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-* has now become -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*, every application
It is determined by fontconfig and the libXft (man Xft) library. Generally modern applications should not specify a font in the "*-lucida-medium-..." form, but rather something more natural like "Lucida-10". This will go through the Xft library to locate the font. FEX: carcharias # fc-match "Lucida-10" Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" Obviously not found...hmm more on that later... carcharias # fc-match "LucidaTerminal-10" lucidaterminal-10-m-r.pcf.gz: "LucidaTerminal" "Regular" ...better. Ok this was found on my system, and an "equery belongs lucidaterminal-10-m-r.pcf.gz" shows it came from lfpfonts. So it looks like I was wrong about lfpfonts having Lucida. That will give you a truetype LucidaTerminal, but I also found the "Lucida" font if you really want that. You'll need to merge font-bh-100dpi and font-bh-75dpi. Also, fc-list will give you a list of the fonts that fontconfig knows about. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
