6 Apr
2007
6 Apr
'07
5:19 p.m.
"lc" == Larry Clapp larry@theclapp.org writes:
lc> % xlsfonts | grep adobe-helvetica-medium-r-[^-]*-[^-]*-24- lc> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-130-iso10646-1 lc> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-130-iso8859-1 lc> lc> Why would xlib:list-font-names return a font that I don't actually lc> have installed, when two fonts that I *do* have installed match the lc> given pattern?
I believe that the problem you describe is due to a bug in Xorg
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/5285
but maybe it's up to applications to understand the font size of 0 as an indication that the font is scalable, so to ask for it at some other size.
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Eric Marsden