Re: [gentoo-user] Something is blocking an addition of fonts

[Corbin Bird]

On 03/10/2017 07:24 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
>  Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon  CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
>
> I've added some fonts from outside portage this way:
>
>  (Sorry that what follows is a bit of a confusing mess)
>
> mkdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus
> loaded the fonts into termininus
>
> Ran:
>    mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus
> Ran:
>  xset fp rehash
>
> Which is supposed to tell the X fonts tools about the new
> set of fonts with out having to restart X.
>
> I thought a bit and wondered if I might should have added the new
> directory to the font path.. I don't really think so since the default
> path covers the new one but still....so:
>
> Ran:
>   xset +fp  /usr/share/fonts/terminus
>
> That is supposed to prepend that path to the existing path.
>
> Checked with:
>
>   xset q
>
> And I see the new directory
>
>   Font Path:
>     /usr/share/fonts/terminus_hp3-170310/,/usr/share/fonts/misc/,built-ins
>
>
> The new fonts show up with `fc-list'
>
> OK, all seems to be working...
>
> Until I actually try to use them.
>
> xterm -fa ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf
> (output wrapped for mail)
>
>     Warning: Cannot convert string
>     "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type
>     FontStruct
>
>     Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
>
> It appears the xterm is trying to load a font from somewhere else even
> though I asked for  `ter-u14b_iso-8859-1.pcf'
>
> I'm not at all sure where the -adobe-helvetica if being called.
>
>   sudo grep -r 'adobe-helvetica'  /usr/share/fonts
>    <Nothing>
>
> However there are piles of fonts with `adobe' in the name:
>
>   sudo grep -r adobe /usr/share/fonts|wc-l
>     173
>
> They appear to be mostly like this:
>
>    /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/fonts.scale:verdanaz.ttf
>    -microsoft-verdana-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard
>
> Thought it might be from .Xresoures but there are no fonts there with
> adobe in the name
>
>    `grep adobe .Xresources' <nothing>
>
> Anybody here recognize what the problem might be?
>
> There are a few helvetica in the .. only one is english:
>
>    /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:variable \
>      -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>
> And two japanese helveticas
>
> So I can't even tell where that adobe font is coming from
>
>
>

The "terminus" font is in the Gentoo repo.

Try emerging "media-fonts/terminus-font" && activating with "eselect
fontconfig".

USE flags for the font you might be interested in :

center-tilde
-->Place the '~' character vertically centered on the line instead of to
the top.

pcf
-->Install Portable Compiled Font (PCF) (required for X11)

pcf-unicode-only
-->Remove non-unicode PCF fonts that could be problematic. See bug #520222.

psf
-->Install PC Screen Font (PSF) with unicode data (for linux console)

Corbin