From koffice  Wed Nov 07 10:52:54 2001
From: Craig Drummond <cpdrummond () freeuk ! com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10:52:54 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: Symbol fonts in KFormula
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=100513036008140

> Actually, this is a more general problem with KOffice fonts, but the 

> immediate issue is that I can't generate any Greek letters in 
KFormula!
> 
> Setup is KOffice 1.1-3 running on KDE 2.2.1, on Yellowdog Linux 2.0. 
This is 
> a Redhat-based PPC distro running on a Mac, which may be relevant.
> 
> I don't _think_ the X setup is part of the problem. I'm running 
XFree86 
> 4.0.2, font paths in XF86Config-4 seem to be OK, xlsfonts shows about 
25 
> variants of adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal, and one of 
> urw-symbol-medium-r-normal.
> 
> Non-KDE apps seem to be OK, for instance I can run a latex doc 
through latex 
> and dvips and get a ps doc with all the math symbols intact.
> 
> I've read that there's some strange font behaviour produced by the 
KDE 
> anti-aliasing option, and I'm certainly seeing that. With AA off, 
KFormula 
> produces empty spaces where Greek letters should be; with it on, it 
produces, 
> for example, lower-case 'a' with a circle over it for Greek sigma, 
and 
> upper-case 'O' with a tilde over it for Greek pi.
> 
> Looking at the font menu in KWord, it's only finding about 10 fonts. 
gfontsel 
> finds 56.

When using AA, KDE will only use/find/list fonts that are contained in 
directories listed in XftConfig (either /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XftConfig, 
or ~/.xftconfig). Also, only TrueType and Type1 fonts will be used.

The problem with symbol encoding may be overcome with lines in 
XftConfig suuch as:

match any family == "Wingdings"
edit encoding = "glyphs-fontspecific"

> 
> If anyone can sort this one out, or direct me to the appropriate FAQ, 
I'd be 
> _very_ grateful!
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 

Hope this helps...

Craig