Re: many blank buttons in (math) greek letters palette

On Tuesday, July 01, 2003 4:09 PM
"Irene Vatton" <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:28:51 +0800
> "Dekai Wu" <dekai@cs.ust.hk> wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:57 PM
> > "Irene Vatton" <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:30:13 +0800
> > > "Dekai Wu" <dekai@cs.ust.hk> wrote:
>
> > > Amaya uses esstix fonts and the font requested to display the keyboard
is
> > >    "-ttf-esstixone-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> > > See in the FAQ how to load and install these fonts.
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion. We went through these steps but the
> > problem persisted. It appears to be an incompatibility between Amaya
> > and the GTK version in RedHat 9.0. Here's why:
> >
> > 1. We managed to install RPMS package version of Amaya 8.0 (GTK
> >    version), which was downloaded from w3.org, onto RedHat 9.0.
> >    We experienced the font problem on the Greek Letters palette.
> >
> > 2. We installed the same RPM (GTK) package on a PC running
> >    Mandrake Linux 9.1. No problem with the Greek Letters palette.
> >
> > 3. We compiled Amaya 8.0 from the source code with GTK option
> >    on RedHat 9.0. The resultant binary still exhibits the same
> >    font display problem on the Greek Letters palette.
>
> It could be a problem with the "fonts.dir" file or the "XftCache file".
> I published a copy of my esstix directory at
>  http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Distribution/esstix.tar.gz
> This directory is  installed on my box at /usr/local/share/fonts/esstix
and there
> is a refenrece
> dir "/usr/local/share/fonts/esstix" in "/etc/X11/XftConfig"
> and  catalogue = ..... /usr/local/share/fonts/esstix, in the file
"/etc/X11/fs/config"
>
> > 4. We compiled Amaya 8.0 from the source code, using Motif (lesstif)
> >    instead of GTK (ie.  --without-gtk). No problem with the Greek
> >    Letters palette, even without installing the esstix fonts.
>
> This Motif version doesn't use truetype fonts and xft.
>
> > 5. On Solaris platform, we compiled Amaya 8.0 from the source code,
> >    with GTK option. No problem with the Greek Letters palette.
> >
> > Our RedHat 9.0 (not 8.0!) systems were created with the vanilla
> > installation process, and should not be the cause of the problem.
> > It should be easy to replicate the problem by trying step (3) above.
> > Hope this info is useful.
>
> Perhaps RedHat 9.0 uses a different font server and needs another
configuration.

We believe Redhat 9 does use a newer version of the X font server
but we have followed the new configuration guidelines, so we don't
think the font server is causing the problem.

We've also tried using the copy of your esstix directory, but the
same problem remains with the Greek Letters palette.

It would be nice if someone could verify a workable compilation
under plain vanilla RedHat 9 with GTK support (with regard to the
Greek Letters palette).

We are currently using the Motif version as a workaround, bit it has
minor incompatibilities e.g. with the clipboard for cut-and-paste.

Thanks again for your help.

    Regards,
    -Dekai

Dr. Dekai Wu, Human Language Technology Center, HKUST
Dept of Computer Science, Univ of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay,
Hong Kong
tel +852 2358.7000 / dir +852 2358.6989 / fax +852 2358.1477
dekai@cs.ust.hk / www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai

Received on Thursday, 3 July 2003 01:40:22 UTC