lib/X11/fonts/TTF vs lib/X11/fonts/TrueType

Jose M Rodriguez josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Sun Feb 13 03:03:50 PST 2005


El Domingo, 13 de Febrero de 2005 10:53, Kris Kennaway escribió:
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 10:27:49AM +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> > El Domingo, 13 de Febrero de 2005 04:12, Kris Kennaway escribi?:
> > > A number of ports install TrueType fonts into
> > > lib/X11/fonts/TrueType instead of lib/X11/fonts/TTF which seems
> > > to be the canonical X11 location.  Should these ports be fixed,
> > > or should the TrueType directory be added to the BSD.x11-4.dist
> > > file (or forthcoming pkg-plist)?
> >
> > This must be _allways_ under ${X11BASE}/lib/X11/fonts/ or stock
> > fontconfig can't see it.
>
> Well, they both are, but the question is whether the ports should be
> fixed to put them all in the same directory or not.
>
> Kris

I don't think so.  There are a lot of TTF fonts out of TTF or TrueType 
like vera or webfonts.   Also, think that a private dir under 
${X11BASE}/lib/X11/fonts/ must easy port pkg-plist and font.alias (or 
font.dir).

--
  josemi

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