From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: no font shown with tamil.el Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200302130036.JAA08393@etlken.m17n.org> <200302130216.LAA08528@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045104817 2033 80.91.224.249 (13 Feb 2003 02:53:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:53:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18j9V2-0000W9-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:53:20 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18j9hH-00076R-00 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:05:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j9Wv-0002yh-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j9Wb-0002yb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:54:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j9WZ-0002wZ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18j9WY-0002st-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-reply-to: <200302130216.LAA08528@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:16:48 +0900 (JST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11614 Anyway, I'd like to ask you to try the other method too, i.e. using *.ttf directly. .... Failure. This time, you don't need mkfontdir which is a command to generate fonts.dir from the directory contents. Instead, put these lines in fonts.dir by yourself in the directory of *.ttf, and "xset fp+ ...". OK, I did that. I moved the *.ttf files to ../cdac, put the lines your suggested into a ../cdac/fonts.dir file, and reran the "xset fp+ ..." and "xset fp rehash" commands. However, you also ask: .... But, before doing that, please remove the directory of CDAC PCF fonts from your font path to avoid unnecessary confusion. I am not sure whether I did right. My /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contains the following: Section "Files" # Uncommenting the "unix/:7100" line leads to wider default fonts FontPath "unix/:7100" # for xfs, but xfs-xtt is newer FontPath "unix/:7101" # for xfs-xtt -- evidentally, load both # If the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/local/share/emacs/fonts/" FontPath "/usr/local/share/emacs/fonts/bdf" FontPath "/usr/local/src/intlfonts/European" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" EndSection I commented out the FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" line and then started a new X session. Empty boxes appeared in the HELLO file for Hindi and Tamil. However, when I put that line back into my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and started another X session again, the Hindi and Tamil glyphs appeared again. So my understanding is that I am only seeing the Hindi and Tamil glyphs because of the *.pcf or *.bdf files in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/. -- Robert J. Chassell Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8 http://www.teak.cc bob@rattlesnake.com