[Xquartz-dev] The 2.1.0 package and Apple System Fonts

[Ben Byer]

On Dec 8, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 07:11, Merle Reinhart wrote:
>
>> So, apparently, something didn't quite work right after  
>> X11-2.1.0.pkg was installed until a reboot.
>
> Hmm... with the .pkg, I set 'fc-cache' to execute on boot, so if  
> anything, that is possibly the problem.  I'll put fc-cache into  
> postinst.
>
>> Note: this fixed up the fc-* commands, but the server still only  
>> see a few fonts, but I seems to me that this is now understood (I  
>> have a lot of X11 apps that I use that rely on the fonts that the  
>> xserver provides, so it is inconvenient at times which is why I was  
>> trying to understand).
>
> It only shows ttf, I believe.  I think otf and dfont are not  
> supported (can someone verify this as I'm only about 50% sure).


Ok.  Let's figure this out, for reals.

If I go and run "sudo mkfontscale /System/Library/Fonts /Library/ 
Fonts; mkfontscale ~/Library/Fonts; sudo mkfontdir /System/Library/ 
Fonts /Library/Fonts; mkfontdir ~/Library/Fonts; xset fp default; xset  
+fp /System/Library/Fonts,/Library/Fonts; xset +fp ~/Library/Fonts;  
xlsfonts | wc -l" I get 9141 fonts as a result.  (Obviously, this will  
depend on how many Mac fonts you have installed.)

'cat /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/OTF/fonts.dir' lists 24 fonts, so it seems  
to support OTF.

I have a Zapfino.dfont in my /Library/Fonts directory;  after the  
above command, I see it listed in fonts.dir:
Zapfino.dfont -linotype-zapfino-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1

However, 'xlsfonts | grep -i zapf' produces no output. Hmm.
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Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer