On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the 
> machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free 
> originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 machine 
> then all is Ok. If I log into the remote machine from this Tru64 box 
> and run the remote LyX I get red text.
> 
> So it appears that the two sets of fonts are incompatible?

*shrug* 

I am really clueless when it comes to fonts. Maybe you could ask Dekel
or so ;-}

> Actually, I suspect that this is not the cause of the problem. The 
> real cause is that the directory trees have a different structure. On 
> the Tru64 machine the equivalent of /home/aleem is /usr/users/aleem, 
> so the necessary xfonts dir is not found:
> $ Adding /home/aleem/.lyx-1.3.3cvs/xfonts/ to the font path.
> xset:  bad font path element (#59), possible causes are:
>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>     Incorrect font server address or syntax

Ah. And what happens if you manually run xset fp+ on the Tru64 box
before you start LyX?

Andre'

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