Lao TTf OT fonts

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Dear all,

 

(Forgive me if this list is not the right one to be asking)

 

After successful install Fedora Core 2, and love it, I then try to install
Lao TTF OT fonts. Two years ago, I have got Lao KDE working on Mandrake and
Redthat 7.0, which involved the following steps. However, some of the things
I do might have been changed or may have not needed anymore, especially with
new Xfree86. Please help me out and thanks in advance.

 

What I have done:

 

Font installation (Lao ttf OT)

 

copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF

 

run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'

run 'mkfontdir'

run 'xset ft rehash'

I wasn't able to run 'xftcache'

 

run 'setxkbmap -v lo -option grp:alt_toggle_shift '

  

 

After finished these steps, I then checked to see if the keyboard layout for
Lao is selected, it was. I also checked to see if my ttf fonts I installed
were being selected or not, there weren't any. 

 

1) Any other file(s) or anything I need to tweak? 

2) Where are default fonts?

 

Cheers,

 

Anousak Souphavanh

 

Malcolm Gladwell's  "Tipping Point: How 

small things can make a big difference"

[Rex Dieter]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:

>  copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'
>  run 'mkfontdir'
>  run 'xset ft rehash'
>  I wasn't able to run 'xftcache' 
Replace those steps with
/sbin/service xfs reload
fc-cache

-- Rex

[Rex Dieter]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:

>  On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:
>
> > copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> > run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'
> > run 'mkfontdir'
> > run 'xset ft rehash'
> > I wasn't able to run 'xftcache'
>
>  Replace those steps with
>  /sbin/service xfs reload
>  fc-cache 
I should have said, replace the steps after the font/file copy.  That part 
still needs to be done, of course.  (-:

-- Rex

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Thanks, Rex.

Fonts still not loaded. As I did,

1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, only
Bitstream and others.

Am I missing something?

Anousak


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:37 AM
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
Subject: Re: Lao TTf OT fonts

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:

>  On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:
>
> > copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> > run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'
> > run 'mkfontdir'
> > run 'xset ft rehash'
> > I wasn't able to run 'xftcache'
>
>  Replace those steps with
>  /sbin/service xfs reload
>  fc-cache 
I should have said, replace the steps after the font/file copy.  That part 
still needs to be done, of course.  (-:

-- Rex


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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le vendredi 03 septembre 2004 à 11:56 -0400, Anousak a écrit :
>  Thanks, Rex.
>  
>  Fonts still not loaded. As I did,
>  
>  1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, only
>  Bitstream and others.
>  
>  Am I missing something? 
For most modern apps putting fonts in /usr/share/fonts/something or
~/.fonts is likely to be simpler and much more effective;)

DEATH to the legacy font system. No more X font strings for me.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Thanks, Nicolas and all. It works! Surely new features make life easier.

Cheers,

Anousak

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Nicolas Mailhot
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 12:20 PM
To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
Subject: RE: Lao TTf OT fonts

Le vendredi 03 septembre 2004 à 11:56 -0400, Anousak a écrit :
>  Thanks, Rex.
>  
>  Fonts still not loaded. As I did,
>  
>  1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, 
only
>  Bitstream and others.
>  
>  Am I missing something? 
For most modern apps putting fonts in /usr/share/fonts/something or
~/.fonts is likely to be simpler and much more effective;)

DEATH to the legacy font system. No more X font strings for me.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

[Mark Guzzo]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:56, Anousak wrote:
>  Thanks, Rex.
>  
>  Fonts still not loaded. As I did,
>  
>  1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, only
>  Bitstream and others.
>  
>  Am I missing something?
>  
>  Anousak
>  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: fedora-devel-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Rex Dieter
>  Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 11:37 AM
>  To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
>  Subject: Re: Lao TTf OT fonts
>  
>  On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  
>  > On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:
>  >
>  >> copy *ttf to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  >> run 'ttmkfdir > fonts.scale'
>  >> run 'mkfontdir'
>  >> run 'xset ft rehash'
>  >> I wasn't able to run 'xftcache'
>  >
>  > Replace those steps with
>  > /sbin/service xfs reload
>  > fc-cache
>  
>  I should have said, replace the steps after the font/file copy.  That part 
>  still needs to be done, of course.  (-:
>  
>  -- Rex
>  
>  
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>  
>   
I just copy the *.ttf files to /home/user/.fonts directory. It's not
there by default, you must mkdir .fonts and then copy the *.ttf files to
it. X does not even need to be restarted.

HTH :-)

-- 
Mark Guzzo
Citrix / Linux Admin
Sinai Health Systems
guzmar(a)sinai.org

M A R G U Z at A M E R I T E C H dot N E T

Lao KDE related questions

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Hi All,

There are several more things which I need your help. The following are
steps necessary to get Lao support in KDE. 
 
1) I want to have KDE as default environment. Though I can manually select
at the beginning but want to make it as default.
2) set 'setxkbmap -v us,lo -options grp:alt_toggle_shift' as default at
start of Fedora. Which file should I include this statement?
3) Put all localized KDE files (mo files) in to usr/share/locale/lo. How do
I load the KDE so that Lao GUIs/menus would take into effect? Could I do it
from Control Panel?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Cheers,

Anousak

[Rex Dieter]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Anousak wrote:

>  Thanks, Rex.
>
>  Fonts still not loaded. As I did,
>
>  1) Copied all Lao TTF fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  2) executed '/sbin/service xfs reload' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  3) executed 'fc-cache' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
>  4) Open Kate, Configure Editor, Schemas-Font, no Lao TTF fonts listed, only
>  Bitstream and others.
>
>  Am I missing something? 
Actually yes.

1.  Make sure that folder is in your legacy/xfs fontpath (as root)
chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
afterwhich, (re)run
/sbin/service xfs reload


2.  Make sure that folder is configured for use with fontconfig, ie, is it 
listed in
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf
afterwich, (re)run
fc-cache

-- Rex

Lao KDE?

[Anousak Souphavanh]

Hi All,


After installed mo files (translated Lao KDE message files) under
/usr/share/locale/lo then I configured Lao support under Control
Center-Regional and Accessibility-Country/Region and Language-Laos. I then
selected Appearance and Themes-Fonts, under Menus I select Lao OT font.
Applied both changes. Opened Kwrite, but Lao GUI wasn't take into affect. I
also tried with conqueror. Anything else I need to do?

Thanks,

Anousak