[mgp-users 01368] Confusion about xft fonts

[Richard M Kreuter <kreuter@progn.net>]

Hello,

I'm using MagicPoint version 1.10a on NetBSD 2.0Beta3, with XFree86 4.4,
and am unable to convince mgp to use all the fonts I have around. The
following deffont does what I expect:

%deffont "charter"      xfont "Bitstream Charter"

However, I can't figure out how to use the corresponding bold, italic,
and bold+italic versions of this fonts. I've tried deffonts like these:

%deffont "charterit"    xfont "Bitstream Charter:style=Italic"
%deffont "charterbd"    xfont "Bitstream Charter:style=Bold"
%deffont "charterbdit"  xfont "Bitstream Charter:style=Bold Italic"

I get Bitstream Charter regular in the all these cases.

I've also tried using XLFD names:

%deffont "charterit2"    xfont "-bitstream-bitstream charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1"
%deffont "charterbd2"    xfont "-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1"
%deffont "charterbdit2"    xfont "-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1"

I get some sans-serif roman font I can't identify in these cases.

mgp reports that it's trying to use fonts with names I've specified:

using xftfont [Bitstream Charter] size: 76
using xftfont [Bitstream Charter:style=Italic] size: 76
using xftfont [-bitstream-bitstream charter-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1] size: 76
using xftfont [Bitstream Charter:style=Bold] size: 76
using xftfont [-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1] size: 76
using xftfont [Bitstream Charter:style=Bold Italic] size: 76
using xftfont [-bitstream-bitstream charter-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1] size: 76

xterm displays with the specified italic and bold fonts, so the fonts do
exist on my system and can be rendered and so forth.

What am I doing wrong with mgp?

Thanks in advance,
Richard Kreuter