From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Nov 14 12:01:42 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri Nov 14 12:00:52 2003
Subject: [Rd] plotmath problems with X11 fonts (Redhat 9)
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Martin Maechler wrote:

>     BDR> but your listing will tell us the problem.
> 
> Hmm, its beginning is identical to yours, and then goes on :
> 
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-61-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-74-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-85-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-95-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-142-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-191-adobe-fontspecific
> -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-51-adobe-fontspecific
> -urw-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -urw-symbol-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-i-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-i-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-i-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-i-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> -zz_abiword-symbol-regular-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
> 
> so, yes, I'll try to turn off the abiword fonts, but somehow
> they shouldn't be the harm since they come after the other ones
> (and they end in "....-adobe-*" as well!).

But as they seem to be scalable fonts they may be used in preference to
mismatching fixed-szie ones. My expectation is that they are not in the
encoding they say they are.

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[Rd] plotmath problems with X11 fonts (Redhat 9)
Prof Brian Ripley