diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TT-XFree86.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TT-XFree86.sgml index 0c6a021d..6df55c3f 100644 --- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TT-XFree86.sgml +++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/TT-XFree86.sgml @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ @@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ Changelog: TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.0.x mini-HOWTO <author>Bartek Kostrzewa, <tt/bartek@pt.lu/ -<date>0.02, 2001-02-21 +<date>0.0.3, 2001-02-21 <abstract> This mini-HOWTO describes how to use TrueType (*.ttf) fonts with @@ -52,7 +53,12 @@ major installation and backups at regular intervals. <sect1>News <p> -This release cleans up some errors I wrote about Netscape font scaling. +<itemize> +<item>0.0.3: Due to possible legal problems some modifications were done. +<item>0.0.2: This release cleans up some errors I wrote about Netscape font scaling. +<item>0.0.1: Initial release. +</itemize> + This document can be found at: <url url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html"> @@ -61,20 +67,22 @@ This document can be found at: I'd like to thank Bear Giles for his Debian TTF howto which brought me on the right path :o). -Of course, credit should also go to the XFree86 crew, and Joerg -Pommnitz for writing <tt>ttmkfdir</tt>. +Of course, credit should also go to the XFree86 crew for the enormous effort of maintaining XFree86, and Joerg Pommnitz for writing <tt>ttmkfdir</tt>. Also I'd like to pass a BIG big thank you to the LDP for building and maintaining a network of helping hands which already guided many people through the hard to overcome the learning curve Linux has. +Thanks to Joe Meadows for notifying me that this howto probably described +an illegal act in version 0.0.2 and earlier. + <sect1>Translations <p> I currently don't know of any translations of this mini-HOWTO, if you want to make one, just do it and either submit it yourself, or send it to me and I will credit you and publish it. -Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address on Nyx: +Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address: <htmlurl url="mailto:bartek@pt.lu/" name="bartek@pt.lu"> @@ -84,27 +92,22 @@ Any comments or suggestions can be mailed to my mail address on Nyx: <sect>Procedure <p> -Get a set of ttf fonts from M$, or some fonts of your own, or -just use your windows partition if you have one and do the -following as root at the command line: - -<em> -<bf>IF</bf> you are using something else than the windows partition method, -line 2 will (of course) differ. -</em> +Get a set of TrueType fonts (for example from one of the many sites +making fonts availiable for download) and do the following as +root at the command line: <itemize> <item><tt>mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt> -<item><tt>cp /winpartition/windows/fonts/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt> +<item><tt>cp /home/joeuser/yourdownloaddirectory/*.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt> <item><tt>cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Truetype</tt> <item><tt>ttmkfdir > fonts.scale</tt> <item><tt>mkfontdir</tt> </itemize> <p> -There you go. You will now have all TrueType fonts working. If you want -to add fonts, just move/copy those [*.ttf files] into the aforementioned -directory, and repeat the process starting from line 3. +There you go. You will now have all of your TrueType fonts working. If +you want to add fonts, just move/copy those [*.ttf files] into the +aforementioned directory, and repeat the process. Netscape has problems with these fonts, you have to check the "Allow Scaling" setting in the Fonts dialog, don't feel distracted by the fact