D. R. Evans wrote: > Siard wrote on 07/15/2015 08:00 AM: > > D. R. Evans wrote: > >> The description of the package cm-super-x11 says: > >> "This package makes the cm-super fonts available to X11. This > >> package does not contain any fonts itself but allows one to reuse > >> the cm-super fonts as X11 screen fonts." > >> > >> Nice, but how does one actually use these fonts once the package > >> has been installed? > >> > >> I ran xlsfonts, and the output seems no different; in particular, I > >> see no trace of any cm fonts in the listing. > > > > In xlsfonts, these fonts are named 'computer modern'. > > xlsfonts may need a restart to show them. > > I rebooted before I posted, because I know that fonts sometimes need > various things to be restarted before being recognised, and I thought > that a reboot was the cleanest way to be certain that everything > would be initialised properly. > > They still don't appear: > > ---- > > n7dr@shack:~$ xlsfonts | grep comp > n7dr@shack:~$ > > ----
I have Stretch, where they do appear. No idea what could be wrong with xlsfonts in Jessie. > > I can see these fonts in LibreOffice, also named 'Computer Modern'. > > > > The X11 fonts are located in /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 and have > > names like sfrm1000.afm & sfrm1000.pfb etc. They are just links to > > the Tex fonts, located in /usr/share/texmf/fonts. > > Yep; those links are there. If these links are not broken, i.e. either cm-super or cm-super-minimal (TeX font package) is installed, so the fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts exist, then these fonts should be available, e.g. in LibreOffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150715191232.a49c8d09.shiems...@kpnplanet.nl
