[solved] editing artwiz-cure for character support

epsilon · 2010-07-19 05:57:44

Hello,

I notice that artwiz-cure seems to lapse into (what would seem to be) default font for certain international chars, like ó é and í. It's particularly annoying, since I love the font. However, I remember seeing some information about converting fonts and editing them manually (the context and program I cannot remember).

Just wondering if anyone could offer some pointers for me to do this. I think each glyph is mapped to a certain code which correspond to characters to display (or I could be making this up entirely) and if I had a way to create and map glyphs like that I'd be in business.

Thanks.

Last edited by epsilon (2010-07-19 13:13:48)

karol · 2010-07-19 06:04:05

Where did you get this font from? Is it a piece of a larger 'fontpack'? artwiz-aleczapka maybe?
Where / when do you 'lose' accented characters - in the console, in X, what app exactly?

Edit: I don't think you want this kind of editing https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 36#p724236

I've seen that some users have artwiz-aleczapka-de or -en fontsettings, so you have to pick the ones that (should) have the needed character set.

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epsilon · 2010-07-19 07:14:45

I'm using artwiz-fonts 1.3-5

Context: X, through Awesome/Vicious, displaying mpd's track/artist.

I'm not intl. or anything, but I play songs from various countries with their native track name and I'd like to have them readable (not messing up my bar). That link was what I was looking for, although it might be more difficult than I thought.

I'll look into other artwiz packs in the meantime.

Edit: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10786 looks like it fits the bill. I'll try switching over (hopefully it just necessitates removing artwiz-fonts and installing the AUR package) and see if it works.

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karol · 2010-07-19 07:23:57

http://osdir.com/ml/fonts.freetype.user … 00003.html

> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10786 looks like it fits the bill
that's why I've asked which package are you using.

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epsilon · 2010-07-19 07:26:55

All good now, thanks for the help!

karol · 2010-07-19 07:29:37

So what's the solution - to use artwiz-latin1-fonts?
Please remember to add [solved] to the thread's title.

epsilon · 2010-07-19 07:48:50

Well there is one caveat. I don't seem to be able to use the font in the format -artwize-cure-*-*-*-*etc

I don't know much about font configuration, is there any way I can correct this?

karol · 2010-07-19 07:55:21

Try using xfontsel - it's a tool to create the font config lines (no sane person is going to dash star dash till the kingdom come). You pick the fonts and theirs properties from the menu,

epsilon · 2010-07-19 10:44:32

It's not showing up in xfontsel, is what I meant.

karol · 2010-07-19 10:51:02

Look into /usr/share/fonts/artwiz-latin1-fonts/

epsilon · 2010-07-19 12:52:15

Doesn't seem like anything is missing:

anorexia-bold.pcf.gz
anorexia.pcf.gz
aqui-bold.pcf.gz
aqui.pcf.gz
cure-bold.pcf.gz
cure.pcf.gz
drift-bold.pcf.gz
drift.pcf.gz
edges-bold.pcf.gz
edges.pcf.gz
fkp.pcf.gz
fonts.alias
fonts.cache-1
fonts.dir
fonts.scale
gelly-bold.pcf.gz
gelly.pcf.gz
glisp-bold.pcf.gz
glisp.pcf.gz
kates-bold.pcf.gz
kates.pcf.gz
lime-bold.pcf.gz
lime.pcf.gz
mints-mild-bold.pcf.gz
mints-mild.pcf.gz
mints-strong-bold.pcf.gz
mints-strong.pcf.gz
nu-bold.pcf.gz
nu.pcf.gz
smoothansi-bold.pcf.gz
smoothansi.pcf.gz
snap-bold.pcf.gz
snap.pcf.gz

karol · 2010-07-19 12:58:21

cure.pcf.gz is here. Maybe you need to move it one leve up or add another fontdir to some configs? <shrugs>

epsilon · 2010-07-19 13:03:27

Some clarification:

It's not just cure missing from xfontsel, it's the entirety of the artwiz fonts. Additionally, artwiz fonts remain accessible through a phrase like "cure 10", but some applications will no accept font setting of that nature (dwm, dmenu, to name a few).

karol · 2010-07-19 13:06:37

Maybe because they're in /usr/share/fonts/artwiz-latin1-fonts/
and not in /usr/share/fonts/

Look into other artwiz PKGBUILDs to see where they put the fonts.

epsilon · 2010-07-19 13:13:35

Fixed the problem, had to edit xorg.conf to include the artwiz-latin1-fonts folder. Works fine now, thanks for the help.

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