[GRASS-dev] true type font question

I’m trying to find out if this is a general issue, a Mac problem, or just a problem with my stuff.

It used to be that whenever I displayed anything with text, it would default to Romans unless I set the font to something else.

Now, displaying something with text displays NOTHING at all unless I manually set the font globally (config menu) or in a particular module.

Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it just me?

Michael


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Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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On Sun, November 18, 2007 06:02, Michael Barton wrote:

I'm trying to find out if this is a general issue, a Mac problem, or just
a
problem with my stuff.

It used to be that whenever I displayed anything with text, it would
default
to Romans unless I set the font to something else.

Now, displaying something with text displays NOTHING at all unless I
manually set the font globally (config menu) or in a particular module.

Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it just me?

We had the same problem in wingrass and it was due to etc/fontcap not
being correctly written during install (wrong path names). Running
g.mkfontcap in ant open grass session solved the problem.

Moritz

Michael Barton wrote:
> I'm trying to find out if this is a general issue, a Mac problem, or just
> a problem with my stuff.
>
> It used to be that whenever I displayed anything with text, it would
> default to Romans unless I set the font to something else.
>
> Now, displaying something with text displays NOTHING at all unless I
> manually set the font globally (config menu) or in a particular module.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it just me?

Moritz Lennert wrote:

We had the same problem in wingrass and it was due to etc/fontcap not
being correctly written during install (wrong path names). Running
g.mkfontcap in ant open grass session solved the problem.

this suggests a need for a fail-safe fallover to a default value (romans) on
error, instead of setting the font to "".

Hamish

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Hamish wrote:

> We had the same problem in wingrass and it was due to etc/fontcap not
> being correctly written during install (wrong path names). Running
> g.mkfontcap in ant open grass session solved the problem.

this suggests a need for a fail-safe fallover to a default value (romans) on
error, instead of setting the font to "".

The problem is that the code which initialises the font doesn't work
if etc/fontcap doesn't have an entry for "romans".

--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

In my case, fontcap is correctly produced, but nothing is selected
apparently.

Michael

On 11/18/07 4:52 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

Michael Barton wrote:

I'm trying to find out if this is a general issue, a Mac problem, or just
a problem with my stuff.

It used to be that whenever I displayed anything with text, it would
default to Romans unless I set the font to something else.

Now, displaying something with text displays NOTHING at all unless I
manually set the font globally (config menu) or in a particular module.

Is anyone else seeing this? Or is it just me?

Moritz Lennert wrote:

We had the same problem in wingrass and it was due to etc/fontcap not
being correctly written during install (wrong path names). Running
g.mkfontcap in ant open grass session solved the problem.

this suggests a need for a fail-safe fallover to a default value (romans) on
error, instead of setting the font to "".

Hamish

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Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton