Re: Font problem under Linux
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg115071] Re: Font problem under Linux
- From: Simon <simonjtyler at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:10:59 -0500 (EST)
- References: <iff44v$r5i$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Dec 29, 9:56 pm, Olaf <olaf.rogal... at googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > in my installation of mathematica 6 under Suse SLED 10 most non- > alphanumeric glyphs (for example > '->', '@', '/', '=A7', ...) are displayed as empty boxes if the used > font is a bold face font.Since the default font > of input cells is "Courier Bold", this is quite annoying > > What is going wrong here? > > Thank you in advance, Olaf > > The details of my system are: > - Suse SLED 10 > - Mathematica 6.0 > - Font of input cells is "Courier Bold 12", Writing System: Any > - bash> xlsfonts |grep -i -- -wri-mathematica|uniq|wc -l > 32 > - bash> xlsfonts |grep -i courier|uniq|wc -l > 654 > - bash> xset q > /home/y1rog/.fonts, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled, > /opt/kde3/share/fonts, > /usr/local/share/fonts > - Every font directory from above has a valid fonts.dir and for ttf > and pfa, pfb files a fonts.scale file > - bash> set | grep -E 'LC|LANG' > LANG=C > LC_NUMERIC=C I remember that in the original release of Mathematia 6 for linux there was a problem with the QT libraries that caused some strange font problems. This was fixed in a later update and in an updated set of libraries for anyone that asked for them from WRI. Simon