argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (04/10/90)
The system administrator can edit fonts.dir and fonts.alias, but there
doesn't seem to be a way for the user to do this. It would sure be
nice for me to alias one of those very long font names to a common name
that I'd like to use. Anyone have ideas on this?
dan
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The system administrator can edit fonts.dir and fonts.alias, but there
doesn't seem to be a way for the user to do this. It would sure be
nice for me to alias one of those very long font names to a common name
that I'd like to use. Anyone have ideas on this?
Depends on how your X server locates fonts. If it has access to your file
system (either because it is running on a workstation, can do NFS or [T]FTP,
or has some sort of font server protocol):
% mkdir ~/myfonts
% emacs ~/myfonts/fonts.alias
% xset fp+ ~/myfonts # put this in your .xsession/.xinitrc
If your server can't get at your file system, then you'll have to read your
vendor doc to see if there is another way to do it.janssen@parc.Xerox.COM (Bill Janssen) (04/11/90)
You should be able to create a new directory, put a fonts.alias file in it, index it (just run mkfontdir?), and add it to your font path. I don't think the fonts.alias file needs to refer to a font in the current directory. (Wait... let me try it...) Yep: 2 % cd 3 % xlsfonts 'foobar' xlsfonts: pattern "foobar" unmatched 4 % mkdir myfonts 5 % cd myfonts 6 % echo 'foobar -b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-8-80-75-75-p-49-iso8859-1' >fonts.alias 7 % mkfontdir 8 % xset fp+ ~/myfonts 9 % xlsfonts 'foobar' foobar 10 % -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304
brennan@rtp.dg.com (Dave Brennan) (04/14/90)
In article <134169@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
The system administrator can edit fonts.dir and fonts.alias, but there
doesn't seem to be a way for the user to do this. It would sure be nice
for me to alias one of those very long font names to a common name that
I'd like to use. Anyone have ideas on this?
I not only have an idea, I know of a way to do it :-) Create a
directory to keep your for aliases. For this exercise, we'll use
/usr/joe/X11/fonts. In this directory place a file called "fonts.alias".
Each line of this file should contain your alias, white space, then an
exisiting font name. For example, your file might contain these lines:
times10 -adobe-times-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-54-iso8859-1
helv10 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1
cour10 *courier-m*-r*--10*
Now run the following commands: (You'll probably want to put these
somewhere that will get them executed whenever you run X.)
% xset fp+ /usr/joe/X11/fonts [ you're font dir goes here ]
% xset fp rehash
To convince yourself that this _really_ did work, you can try
% xfd cour10
Hope this helps!
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Hm: (919) 460-5725 Wk: (919) 248-6330 _________/ dave_brennan@rpitsmts.bitnetparlier@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Randy Parlier) (04/15/90)
>In article <134169@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: > > The system administrator can edit fonts.dir and fonts.alias, but there > doesn't seem to be a way for the user to do this. It would sure be nice > for me to alias one of those very long font names to a common name that > I'd like to use. Anyone have ideas on this? > I think another good way is to have your system administrator edit the file "fonts.alias" found in the fonts directories and put the string "FILE_NAMES_ALIASES" on a single line. This in effect will allow any one to use "fontname" without the '.snf' suffix as an alias for that font. See the man page on "mkfontdir" for more info. Hope this helps! Randy parlier@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov