Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-09 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:39, Miros/law Baran was heard to say: >> 8.12.2005 pisze Curt Howland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> > > apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf ? >> > >> > Is this one of those "important but never mentioned" utilities? >> >> If you happen to ignore the Recommends: field of t

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Curt Howland wrote: > Interesting. Yet I find aptitude so cumbersome, and tasksel so > arbitrary, that they are useless to me. > > If I may burden this list with one more irrelevancy, what do you find > "suicidal" about dselect? Well, somebody who prefers dselect to aptitude has probably differen

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Curt Howland
On Thursday 08 December 2005 13:17, Matej Cepl was heard to say: > If you still use dselect, do not complain -- I do not have mercy > for those who try to commit suicide and then complain that it hurts > :-). Interesting. Yet I find aptitude so cumbersome, and tasksel so arbitrary, that they are

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Curt Howland wrote: > No, I don't ignore them, I tend to follow whatever dselect If you still use dselect, do not complain -- I do not have mercy for those who try to commit suicide and then complain that it hurts :-). > The fonts still don't show up in the xlsfonts list. Actually, why do you ne

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Curt Howland
On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:39, Miros/law Baran was heard to say: > 8.12.2005 pisze Curt Howland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf ? > > > > Is this one of those "important but never mentioned" utilities? > > If you happen to ignore the Recommends: field of the package

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Miros/law Baran
8.12.2005 pisze Curt Howland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf ? > > Is this one of those "important but never mentioned" utilities? If you happen to ignore the Recommends: field of the package then yes, it was never mentioned. Kind regards Jubal -- [ Miros/law L Baran

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Curt Howland
On Thursday 08 December 2005 02:42, Nikita V. Youshchenko was heard to say: > apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf ? Is this one of those "important but never mentioned" utilities? Sure enough, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts is alive and well and full, so I guess the fact that Times New Ro

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-08 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:14, Leni Mayo was heard to say: >> Hi - >> >> I've just done: >>apt-get install msttcorefonts >> and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served >> by xfstt, and >>$ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts >> lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- >

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread qaz
last few weeks i've had the problem that certain flash website won't display text (altough its possible to select the invisible text and copy and paste it). could this be related? On Thursday 08 December 2005 03:08, Leni Mayo wrote: > When I installed the msttcorefonts package yesterday, it in

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Leni Mayo
When I installed the msttcorefonts package yesterday, it installed the fonts as msttcorefonts, meaning the .ttf files live under /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts and xlsfonts reports the fonts as -msttcorefonts-blah- Where I am stuck is that these fonts aren't visible to the naked eye

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Josh Metzler
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:14 pm, Leni Mayo wrote: > Hi - > > I've just done: >apt-get install msttcorefonts > and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served by > xfstt, and >$ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts > lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- $ xlsfonts | grep mst

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Curt Howland
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 19:33, Matej Cepl was heard to say: > xlsfonts | grep '^-monotype' Nothing. Nothing with just "monotype" either. # dpkg-reconfigure msttcorefonts warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist or is not a directory These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Matej Cepl
Curt Howland wrote: >> Any ideas on how to debug this? Do I need to do some additonal >> configuration after installing msttcorefonts? > > I think it's quite interesting, and look forward to some other peoples > experiences here. Try xlsfonts | grep '^-monotype' Mat?j -- Matej Cepl, http://w

Re: fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Curt Howland
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:14, Leni Mayo was heard to say: > Hi - > > I've just done: >apt-get install msttcorefonts > and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served > by xfstt, and >$ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts > lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- This is inter

fonts in msttcorefonts appear blank

2005-12-07 Thread Leni Mayo
Hi - I've just done: apt-get install msttcorefonts and the fonts seemed to install fine. The fonts are being served by xfstt, and $ xlsfonts | grep msttcorefonts lists all the -msttcorefonts-blah- But in xfontsel, the window pane that normally shows the font symbols appears blank! Likew