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From: masa@hpsciz.sc.hp.com (Masayoshi Habu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Openwindows font path problem
Message-ID: <1310005@hpsciz.sc.hp.com>
Date: 24 May 91 16:36:09 GMT
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In comp.windows.x, raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja) writes:

    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?

In our case, "xset +fp" and "xset fp rehash" works fine as well as
FONTPATH method for xnews. The tricky part is to create a font family
file for each font directory before executing "xset". Assuming that
you have font files (.fb files), try bldfamily on that directory first
to get font family files (.ff files). 

Hope this helps.

Masa