> They both probably use a central font service. On this Arch Linux > machine, I get > > $ fc-match -f '%{file}\n' Symbol
fc-match -f '%{file}\n' Symbol /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf dpkg -S /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf fonts-opensymbol: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice/opens___.ttf LANG= apt show fonts-opensymbol| sed -n '/^Desc/,$p' Description: OpenSymbol TrueType font This package contains the OpenSymbol TrueType font included in LibreOffice. This font contains symbols (like fonts as Wingdings(tm)), bullets (needed for bullets in LibreOffice) and non-latin character it's unclear if opensymbol expect to be a drop-in replacement for symbol.ttf but i guess debian people would be happy to be informed. also: locate symbol.ttf /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf xdg-open /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf dpkg -S /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf fonts-wine: /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf so: cp /usr/share/wine/fonts/symbol.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts fc-list|grep symbol /home/mc/.local/share/fonts/symbol.ttf: Symbol:style=Regular and now the problem is different: the higher bar of the sqrt symbol is now up to the symbol itself. not the numeric part. thanks for helping. regards marc