adding a TrueType font

[Jan Beich]

Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> writes:

> El día Tuesday, March 19, 2013 a las 05:13:52PM +0100, Christoph
> Moench-Tegeder escribió:
>
>> ## Matthias Apitz (guru at unixarea.de):
>> 
>> > but I can't use is, for example with xterm, it says:
>> > 
>> > $ xterm -fn 'Druckschrift BY WOK'
>> > xterm: cannot load font Druckschrift BY WOK
>
> I figured out that it works with -fn this way:
>
> $ fgrep BY /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.dir 
> DruckschriftBayern.ttf -misc-Druckschrift BY
> WOK-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0
> DruckschriftBayern.ttf -misc-Druckschrift BY
> WOK-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

fonts.dir is probably generated by mkfontscale/mkfontdir.

> $ xterm -fn '-misc-Druckschrift BY
> WOK-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1'
> $ urxvt -fn '-misc-Druckschrift BY
> WOK-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1'

Note, -fn (XLFD) doesn't support anti-aliasing and subpixel rendering.