[GRASS-dev] 6.3.0 release - need to set default font

[Michael Barton]

I'm pretty sure that this was discussed briefly, but cannot find it in the
dev archives.

Sometime recently (past couple months), I've ended up without any default
font for GRASS in versions I compile, and have to set a font before I have
any text with barscales, legends, and the like.

The new TrueType font capabilities are great and much nicer than the old
default stroke fonts, but we should have *something* set as a default font
when GRASS starts up. This is a problem on Mac and Windows builds but may
not be showing up on Linux builds.

I can build something into the GUI's to set a default font on startup. But
it seems that this should be done in init.sh so as not to depend on the GUI
and, IMHO, would be even better as a GRASS variable that lives in
.grassrc6--so that whatever is set as a default font during a user session
stays there into future sessions.

In any case, we need something so that people don't fire up GRASS and wonder
why legends have no text.

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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