Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++.so.6 - another gcc upgrade problem?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 23:02, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Aha!  Am I then supposed to
> > unmerge 'media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi' ?
>
> Not sure...but I think it is better to use type1 fonts than bitmap fonts.

How do you tell if it is bitmap or not?  Why is it better?  (I need a lot of 
educating when it comes to fonts ;-)

> Generally modern applications should not specify a font in the
> "*-lucida-medium-..." form, but rather something more natural like
> "Lucida-10".  This will go through the Xft library to locate the font.

It seems that the different Fluxbox styles and especially the older ones are 
still using the XLFD naming convention.  I'll be loathed to change all by 
hand - although I might just do that for the styles that I use often.

> ...better.  Ok this was found on my system, and an "equery belongs
> lucidaterminal-10-m-r.pcf.gz" shows it came from lfpfonts.

Hmm, according to http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfonts/ :

"As of 2006-07-28 09:17, this project is no longer under active development."

> So it looks like I was wrong about lfpfonts having Lucida.  That will
> give you a truetype LucidaTerminal, but I also found the "Lucida" font
> if you really want that.  You'll need to merge font-bh-100dpi and
> font-bh-75dpi.

You've such a wealth of info I hope that you along with some of the more 
learned guys around here never leave Gentoo!  ;-)

> Also, fc-list will give you a list of the fonts that fontconfig knows
> about.

Ditto!  I didn't know that fc-list existed.  It confirms that Lucida does not 
exist in my system (bar the LucidaTypewriter that I have just emerged):

$ fc-list | grep -i lucida
LucidaTypewriter:style=Sans Bold
LucidaTypewriter:style=Sans

I'll emerge font-bh-100dpi and font-bh-75dpi and check to see if the different 
style files work.  Thanks again for your help.
-- 
Regards,
Mick