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Re: Mathematica 4.1 Config:Fonts

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg36826] Re: Mathematica 4.1 Config:Fonts
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 04:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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• Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

I expect that the Helvetica request comes from the
Frontend menues and this is lited I your X resources

$TopDirectory/SystemFiles/FontEnd/SystemResources/X/XMathematica

request the helvetica font:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! GENERAL GUI STYLE / COLOR SETTINGS
!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

! Choose your GUI widget background color.
! CDE: Comment this out.
*background: #c0c0c0

! Choose a font for buttons/text fields, etc.
! You can use xfontsel to get a listing of fonts.
!*Menu*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

! Or just set all the fonts at once.
*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*


Regards
  Jens

Ljósálfr wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to get my Mathematica 4.1 properly configured.
> 
> I set:
> ###################################################################
> /usr/local/mathematica/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X/Specific.tr:
>   @@resource maxForXListFonts
>   10000
> 
> # xlsfonts | wc -l
>    5572
> 
> /etc/X11/XF86Config:
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/Type1"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/X:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
>   FontPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
> 
> # ls -R /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ | grep "/"
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/Type1:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/X:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/util:
> 
> ########################################################
> 
> When I open the Mathematica Book Reference Guide in the Help Browser, I get
> a beep and the message says:
> 
> "Unable to find font with family Helvetica, weight Bold, slant Plain, and
> size 26. Substituting Courier."
> 
> Compared to the things which *were* broken, this is a minor problem.  I can
> live with the beep. What I would now like to know is how to tell Mathematica  what
> fonts to use by default.  This seemingly simple question seems to have no
> simple answer.
> 
> Could someone please help me.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> ^L