Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: PDF-Export Bug?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Are you generally planning to make true type fonts directly available?
> >> I found the Gentium font occasionally and tried to use it under latex,
> >> which is really an annoying task and failed up to now. (O.K. my fault,
> >> there are people using it.) This would be a very nice feature for non
> >> mathematical publishers: perfect typesetting with any TTF-Font!
> >
> > You may try to add it in
> >
> >     progs/fonts/fonts-truetype.scm
>
> I was able to compile texmacs on my system, where I have some truetype
> fonts installed. And they all now show up in
> progs/fonts/fonts-truetype.scm. I can compare my fonts-truetype.scm
> with the one in the precompiled debian-package of Ralf.
>
> But I am unable to use them. There are no menu-entries for eg. the
> M$-Fonts Verdana etc.
>
> Do all fonts have to be present at compile-time? Is there no
> possiblity to add them to a running texmacs?

Look at the C++ file tt_file.cpp and modify the routine tt_font_find
if necessary; it uses locate at the moment (so you may wish to
run updatedb). The M$ fonts are supported by default,
so they should show up after running updatedb.