On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:36 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > If you have more than one element in a fonts.conf file you need to > group them, e.g.
Many thanks, Prof. Ripley. That is working just fine now on my Fedora 12 workstation. All the best, G > > <fontconfig> > <match target="pattern"> > <test name="family"><string>Symbol</string></test> > <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> > <string>Standard Symbols L</string> > </edit> > </match> > > <alias binding="same"> > <family>ZapfDingbats</family> > <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept> > </alias> > </fontconfig> > > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Gavin Simpson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 07:55 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> There have been spasmodic reports of symbols such as pi and infinity > >> in plotmath being reproduced incorrectly on the X11 device on some > >> Linux systems (at least Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 12/13), and we've managed > >> to track down one cause whilst investigating PR#14355. > >> > >> Some systems have Wine and hence the Wine symbol font installed. > >> 'fontconfig', which is used by cairographics in X11(type='cairo') and > >> many other applications, prefers the Wine symbol font to the standard > >> Type 1 URW font, and seems to misinterpret its encoding. > >> > >> You may well have Wine installed without realizing it (as I did) -- it > >> is increasingly common as a dependency of other software. The best > >> test is to run > >> > >> % fc-match symbol > >> s050000l.pfb: "Standard Symbols L" "Regular" > >> > >> This is the result on a system without Wine: if you see > >> > >> % fc-match symbol > >> symbol.ttf: "Symbol" "Regular" > >> > >> you at least potentially have the problem. A good test is to look at > >> ?points and run the function TestChars() defined there as > >> > >> TestChars(font=5) > >> > >> If you do have the problem, a workaround is to add the following lines > >> to ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf (which you may need to > >> create): > >> > >> <match target="pattern"> > >> <test name="family"><string>Symbol</string></test> > >> <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> > >> <string>Standard Symbols L</string> > >> </edit> > >> </match> > >> > >> and repeat the fc-match test to check that it worked. > > > > Hi, > > > > I tried the suggested change to ~/.fonts.conf but am getting an error > > from fontconfig: > > > > $ fc-match symbol > > Fontconfig error: "~/.fonts.conf", line 10: junk after document element > > s050000l.pfb: "Standard Symbols L" "Regular" > > $ cat ~/.fonts.conf > > <match target="pattern"> > > <test name="family"> > > <string>Symbol</string> > > </test> > > <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same"> > > <string>Standard Symbols L</string> > > </edit> > > </match> > > > > <alias binding="same"> > > <family>ZapfDingbats</family> > > <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept> > > </alias> > > > > I have an alias in there to solve the "q" symbol being used in Evince > > etc in place of pch == 1. > > > > Am I inserting this incorrectly? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > G > > > >> > >> (This workaround was culled from > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/551977 > >> ) > >> > > > > -- > > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 > > ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 > > Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk > > Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ > > UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk > > %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% > > > -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
