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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 55031] KFormula can't find math fonts
From:       Ulrich Kuettler <ulrich.kuettler () mailbox ! tu-dresden ! de>
Date:       2003-02-23 14:16:49
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------- Additional Comments From ulrich.kuettler@mailbox.tu-dresden.de  2003-02-23 15:16 -------
Subject: Re:  New: KFormula can't find math fonts

On Saturday 22 February 2003 18:38, you wrote:
> When I attempt to insert a Greek character, a Latin character is inserted.
> Also, the font dialog shows no math fonts, and during startup, a message is
> printed:
>
> kformula: WARNING: No available fonts found. Using defaults.
>
> I strace'd the process and it sucessfully stats the fonts in
> /usr/share/app/kformula.
>
> There is an strace log and some images that should clarify everything at:
> http://www.kode187.net/kformula

Hi Bruce:

thank you for the detailed information. ;) It seems the mathematical fonts 
kformula is looking for are not installed on your system. Kformula needs 
either a font called "symbol" or (preferred) the esstix fonts. If you want to 
really use kformula you'd want to have the esstix ones. You might find them 
at ftp://ftp.elsevier.nl/pub/styles/esstix/esstix.zip. 

The files in /usr/share/app/kformula are not those fonts but rather mapping 
tables that are needed to match these fonts' characters to unicode values. So 
kformula finding these files without the fonts installed doesn't help very 
much.

>
> I will be happy to work closely with a maintainer to fix this, I am
> familiar with C++ and gdb.

These are good news. ;) Please tell me if installing the esstix fonts doesn't 
solve your problem. Any other help is also highly appreciated. If you want to 
help developing kformula you are very welcome.

Greetings,
Uli
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