Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: New fonts for RISC OS, comments welcome Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:36:09 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 30 Message-ID: <52ce220ee8dave@davenoise.co.uk> References: <9f77fe1d-2879-4696-b16b-f6c6124911dd@googlegroups.com> <694ea5cd52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> <52cdc9b502daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> <52cdf80513dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ce0d6329dave@davenoise.co.uk> <52ce11e363dave@davenoise.co.uk> <4e991ece52.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: klXLk/gbtOhmgFdzW/CUHQ.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6456 In article <4e991ece52.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, Tony Moore wrote: > On 12 Sep 2012, "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote: > > In article <52ce0d6329dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News) > > wrote: > > > In article , Martin Wuerthner > > > wrote: > > > > NetSurf (or rather its Unicode font library "Rufl") scans all the > > > > available fonts to build a table of which font supports which > > > > characters. So, NetSurf takes a far closer look at your fonts than > > > > any other application and is therefore much more likely to stumble > > > > over any problems with the font. > > > > > Thanks. So is it necessarily with Cabin - or could it be another one? > > > > Sorry, should have read 'a problem with Cabin' > Maybe a silly question: are you installing the font using Configure > > Fonts > Install fonts > Drop the new !Fonts here...? If you are just > copying the font directory into !Fonts, the Messages1 file will not be > updated, and pehaps this will take NetSurf, by surprise, when scanning. Yes - installed that way followed by a rescan. What is the Messages1 file? -- *If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.