Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:12:24 -0500 From: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> To: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cursive fonts? Message-ID: <20080329011224.2915c5df@mkproductions.org> In-Reply-To: <1206761863.4015.4.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20080328235251.GA84119@thought.org> <1206758980.4015.1.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20080328223017.50da171b@mkproductions.org> <1206761863.4015.4.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2008, at 13:37:43 +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:30 -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > > Hi. > > > > In addition to the fonts in ports you could also try a font site > > like dafont.com. Just extract the .ttf file(s) into ~/.fonts/ and > > restart your application. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > -Mark > > I wasn't aware of that. Don't they have to be registered with the font > server though? It has always just worked properly for me by adding them to ~/.fonts/ and restarting the application. The handbook section on fonts in Xorg also seems to confirm this: "all fonts in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ as well as ~/.fonts/ are already made available to Xft-aware applications." http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-fonts.html -Mark -- Internet Radio: Party107 (Trance/Electronic) - http://www.party107.com Rock 101.9 The Edge (Rock) - http://www.rock1019.net IRC: MIXXnet IRC Network - irc.mixxnet.net (Nick: MIXX941)
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