[GRASS-dev] figureing out fonts - part 3 correction

[Michael Barton]

if uname -s can differentiate Debian from other systems, it's easy enough to
make /usr/share/fonts/freetype as the initial directory for those systems.

Michael


On 4/30/07 1:16 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>> I've done a font selection dialog for the GUI that helps set default
>> display fonts. Let me know if it works OK with your system. Does it
>> start you out at /usr/lib/xll/fonts?
> 
> if I choose TrueType, it goes to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts (that's where
> /usr/lib/xll/fonts symlinks to). I then need to manually navigate to
> /usr/share/fonts/freetype, but Debian may well be doing its own thing
> there and can+will patch as needed (without complaint).
> 
> 
> stroke fonts need the path and extension stripped off of them to work.
> e.g. remove .ppm extension:  (from NVIZ)
> 
> if { [string compare [file extension $fname] ".ppm"] == 0 } then {
>     set fname [file rootname $fname]
> }
> 
> from here:
>   http://philip.greenspun.com/tcl/file-commands.adp
> 
> you need to do [file tail $filename] as well as rootname.
> 
> 
> 
> the font setting works, but doesn't survive a restart of gis.m.
> 
> 
> (still, good progress!)
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
> ps- catch needed for open/close of text files or just execs?

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