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From: olson@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Steve Olson)
Subject: Re: Openwindows font path problem
In-Reply-To: raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu's message of 23 May 91 19:20:54 GMT
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Date: 24 May 91 01:46:40

In article <1991May23.192054.25891@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja) writes:
   Hello.  We have the MIT X server as well
> as the Sun Openwindows 2 xnews server.  Some
> applications (e.g. xtex, Andrew) expect to
> use fonts from font directories not in the
> standard locations.  

> We have no problem doing this for the MIT 
> X server (using "xset fp+ ...." and 
> "xset fp rehash").  However, I'm unable 
> to get the Openwindows xnews server to 
> access ANY non-Openwindows font directory 
> (in fact it seem to look in $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts 
> and *nowhere* else!)

> I've tried changing FONTPATH, as well as the
> "xset fp" method, but nothing works.  Is
> there anything else I should know about
> xnews?  Any suggestions whatsoever to try?

> Narayan Sriranga Raja.

This should probably be a FAQ.  The secret with ClosedWindows is
that the server does not read MIT fonts.  You were, in fact, setting the
font path, but the server was not finding any fonts it recognized.
Sun does supply some utilities to get around this problem, although
its not exactly obvious to the casual user.  convertfont(1) is the
starting point, although I recall that there were several hoops that one
has to jump through.


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