Mathematica for Linux font problem on SuSE7.3
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- Subject: [mg32497] Mathematica for Linux font problem on SuSE7.3
- From: willie cronje <waccronje at ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 01:00:26 -0500 (EST)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
To whom it may concern/anybody who can help After installing Mathematica 4.1 on my HP notebook with newly installed SuSE7.3 I have not been able to use it at all. I have been searching and reading all mail threads of this group relating to this type of problem and after learning a lot about fonts and installations and performing lots of changes on my system and experimenting with some other I still don't manage to get Mathematica to work (or rather work work in a useable way). Initially I got some error messages (two after each other) that I could not read because the letters displayed as little boxes! I managed to override this by specifying the -font option on the command line when starting Mathematica. I could use many different fonts here (as obtained fron xfontsel) and the error messages and menus became readable. But typing into a blank notebook only produced boxes. The first error message said fonts are not correctly installed and using this as a hint I started searching on the Wolfram site. I discovered some usefull information and changed my XF86Config file to include the Mathematica font files. The error message about the fonts now no longer appeared but nothing else changed. I can now actually view the wri fonts in xfontsel and assume they are correctly installed. I also changed the setting for maxForXListFonts in Specific.tr to 7000, which is anumber larger than the number reported by xlsfonts | wc -l. Mathematica remained useles because I could now only type math characters into a notebook!! The second error message still persisted and complained about not finding a character encoding file for iso10646-1. I searched the Wolfram site once more and found more information. I tried to remove any exotic character sets. This did not bring any joy either. I read the mail from Dr. Hans Ekkehard Plesser and followed his suggestions to really remove all encoding that do not correspond to Mathematica encodings. I also made the symbolic link he suggested, ISO10646.m->Unicode.m. Now the error message about iso10646-1 encoding no longer appears bu Mathematica is still not functional. The menus now only display the first character and typing into a notebook only produces boxes and math symbols. Does anybody have any further suggestions? I am in desperate need of help, this is taking me reaaly far from the reason I want to use Mathematica. Regards Willie -- ************************************************************************ Prof.W.A. Cronje Tel:+27-11-489-2602 Rand Afrikaans University Fax:+27-11-489-2602 P.O. Box 524 e-mail:wacronje at ieee.org Aucklandpark 2006 South Africa ************************************************************************