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

[Michael Barton]

This is logical. Any suggestion on how to figure out the directory used by
most fonts?

Michael


On 4/30/07 11:25 AM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I suggest parsing etc/freetypecap, and either using the directory part
> of the path for the first font in that file, or the directory used by
> most fonts (the former is easier, the latter is probably more useful).
> 
> E.g.
> 
> cat $GISBASE/etc/freetypecap | awk -F: '{print $2}' | sed 's!/[^/]*$!!' | uniq
> -c | sort -nr | head -n 1 | cut -c 9-
> 
> Alternatively, you could replicate the logic of mkftcap (formerly
> d.freetypecap), i.e. scan a list of candidate directories and settle
> for the first one which exists.

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