[mgp-users 00762] Re: newbie, mailing archives, standard fonts

[Hans Fangohr <fangohr@soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, you wrote:

> (a) is there a mailing list archive ? I couldn't find any so far.
Don't know.

> Could anyone point out a (ttf-) font, that can be used as a standard and
> looks more as described above?
>

Arial.ttf (from Windows, it is in the fonts subdirectory somewhere on
a windows system) would do the job. Note the license situation: You
get the details when you download the font from
http://microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm. (You will need
to extract this on a windows machine, and then find the font in the
system32\fonts sub-directory or so.)

Copy the Arial.ttf (or whatever font you want) into, say,
/usr/local/share/ttf.
Also, put a pointer to this place into ~/.mgprc by including the line:
tfdir "/usr/local/share/ttf"

Eventually, you need to tell the default.mgp file about you font. If you
want to make it standard, then substitute
%deffont "standard" xfont "helvetica-medium-r", vfont "goth", tfont
"arial.ttf", tmfont "wadalab-gothic.ttf"

with
%deffont "standard" tfont "Arial.ttf"

Have fun!




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