X and Fluxbox :: font encodings
I've been collecting some bitmap fonts for use in DSL, but it seems I don't have any idea whether or not all of the files are needed. For example, the LFP package has 1.8mb of fonts, but when i remove all but just one encoding type it's down to only 300k, and i still have use of all of the fonts. The thing i'm concerned about is this: Will removing all of these others prevent the fonts from being used by some people, or does DSL not use the additional encodings?
Started with this:
antique-10-m-r.pcf.gz
antique-10-m-r-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz
antique-10-m-r-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
antique-10-m-r-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
antique-10-m-r-KOI8-R.pcf.gz
I kept just antique-10-m-r.pcf.gz, which turned out to be iso10646-1
With the terminus font, the ones i kept are iso8859-1.
It doesn't seem like the extra encodings serve any purpose or make any difference, at least in DSL. Am I wrong?
It's really hard to find things on Gooooogle sometimes...most hits are font downloads.
From what I've gathered, it seems like iso8859-1 and iso10646-1 are very common, so unless anyone knows more I think i'll go with what I have.
To tell you the truth, I've been racking my brain for a few days now, trying to figure out out how to add fonts of any kind to D.S.L. so that they'll come up in Firefox/GIMP/etc. .. so far no luck. TrueType or othewise.
I've been running the mk[font whatever]'s on another system of mine where I've just got a debian installation and then copying the directory struture over. Then adding the appropriate line in XF86Config-4 (not using Xvesa here)
Driving me nuts... 
IzzySmith, you can download dsl-artwiz.tar.gz from DSL Download/System and use it as a template. It can be used for bitmap fonts. Bitmap fonts should work in Firefox but you need to add font part in the system.
| Code Sample |
| xset +fp /Your FontPart |
For TrueType Fonts, please read this.
hs7sv:
I'm going to repackage the artwiz extension, probably later today or tomorrow. I didn't have the forethought to realize that font packages installed as loose files in /opt/fonts would overwrite any existing fonts.dir and fonts.alias files in that directory. So the next version will be installed in /opt/fonts/artwiz to prevent this problem.
This isn't really related to the issue at hand, but thought i'd mention it.
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