fonts and symbolic links

[Boaz Harrosh]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>Shouldn't this be "fonts.dir" (note the "s")?
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Sorry, Its a typo, all these missing "s"s and the wrong case. I did not 
paste my actual script Just re-typed it in the mail.
The actual code is exactly as you said.

>Do you Google: <http://google.com/search?q=ttmkfdir+cygwin>?  The matches 
>show that ttmkfdir is not part of the Cygwin/X distribution, so you 
>must've downloaded it separately.  FWIW, I'm going to do some work with 
>fonts soon, and might consider making ttmkfdir into a Cygwin package, 
>installable via setup.exe.
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There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries 
for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I 
found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assumed it was a part of 
cygwin/XFree86.
 Any way, it is a part of many Linux distributions. It looks odd that 
cygwin that leaves within Windows will not take advantage of windows 
fonts. It should be part of the Basic-X package, this and the 2 fonts I 
specified in the 2nd letter. Than the post-Install script should prepare 
the windows fonts directory for use by X. The standard fonts that are 
now part of cygwin/X should only be optional in a different (none 
default) package. As they are not necessary. (and not as beautiful). And 
they triple the size of the base X package. (this is Just my $0.02)

>I don't know how much help it is, but I found that a directory of symlinks 
>(instead of a symlink to a directory) works with XWin.  So, try something 
>like
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>ln -s /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Fonts/* /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
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>and see if it helps.
>And, as you've already noticed, mount will also work.
>	Igor
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I like the mount way so I'll keep it. It might be considered by 
cygwin1.dll teem to change symlinks to directories from windows 
shortcut-files to mount points. As it looks like the current way is not 
so transparent for UNIX applications.

Thank you very much for your reply, and grate work to all the X teem. It 
is totally production ready.

Free life
Boaz