Re: Mathematica 4.0.1 and XFree86 4.0
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- Subject: [mg22787] Re: Mathematica 4.0.1 and XFree86 4.0
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 03:58:24 -0500 (EST)
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In article <8bfcfe$i8m at smc.vnet.net>, Kevin Gross <gross.4 at wright.edu> writes: > I just installed XFree86 4.0 on my Corel Linux box. When I started up > Mathematica, I got the following error: > > The front end could not locate a CharacterEncoding file for the > requested encoding (Couriere.-X Consortium Type 1 Rasterizer). > > Apparently, this is a font problem. However, I have little experience > in dealing with font problems and X. Anyone have suggestions on fixing > this? It's hard to say what is causing the problem. When a notebook requires a specific font, the front end has to determine what encoding system the font uses, and this information is obtained by parsing elements of the font's X logical font description (XLFD). For most cases, this is just iso8859-1, but there are some fonts which use less common encodings for which Mathematica does not have an encoding lookup file (SystemFiles/CharacterEncodings). In these instances, the front end will display a message like the one you describe. It is probably a benign message. > Mathematica seems to work ok, but super- and subscript text looks worse than it > did before. What are the styles of the cells that use superscript and subscript text? What fonts do they use? The degradation you're seeing may be caused by your X server scaling Type 1 fonts to get the smaller script sizes because there are no bitmap fonts at that size. -- P.J. Hinton Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com Wolfram Research, Inc. Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.