From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 06:12:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A81106566B for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from server1.tntpowerhost.com (server1.tntpowerhost.com [208.100.3.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F52F8FC13 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:12:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from adsl-75-25-103-187.dsl.spfdmo.sbcglobal.net ([75.25.103.187] helo=localhost) by server1.tntpowerhost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JfUIl-000Ahp-Ui; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:12:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:12:24 -0500 From: Mark Kane To: Da Rock 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - server1.tntpowerhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [26 6] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - mkproductions.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cursive fonts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:12:29 -0000 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)