From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <1851BB90-041B-4E20-9E99-8869EC31F949@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] fonts in plan9port Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 10:13:59 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 306d6ffa-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just did a cvs update, but I'm not pulling the new font directories; in particular I'm not gettin lucsans. What am I doing wrong? Paul On 3-Apr-06, at 9:21 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > On 12/30/05, Russ Cox wrote: >> I would argue that distribution of the fonts with plan9port >> counts as being with the Plan 9 Operating System, since >> that's what plan9port is, just a port of the Plan 9 Operating System >> software to Unix systems. >> >> If you pulled the fonts out and distributed them with some >> other piece of software, that wouldn't be allowed. But I think >> distribution with plan9port is fine. > > The above argument was admittedly shaky. With help from Rob, > I have obtained explicit permission from Bigelow & Holmes to > use and distribute the bitmap fonts with plan9port and to allow > others to do the same. This should clear up any questions of > distributability of plan9port. > > As part of the agreement, I renamed the font directories to avoid > the use of the name "Lucida". If you have run cvs up recently, you > will have already noticed this. There are three effects worth > mentioning: > > - Old acme binaries, which refer to the lucidasans directory, > will no longer run. To fix this, simply recompile acme. > > - The fonts may be named in your acme.dump files. If so, > acme -l acme.dump will fail. To fix this, edit acme.dump and > ,s/lucida/luc/g. > > - You may need to edit your profiles or shell scripts if you use > the -f or -F options to acme in scripts or shell functions. > > Also as part of the agreement, the PostScript versions of the fonts > are no longer part of the distribution. As a replacement, I have > imported > Luxi Sans and Deja Vu Sans, both of which were freely available. > The typeset manual pages use Luxi Sans, but Deja Vu Sans has > broader Unicode support. > > All these changes have been in the distribution for two weeks. > http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/CHANGES has a few more details. > See the March 19, 2006 entry. > > Enjoy. > Russ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEM/rYpJeHo/Fbu1wRAvMnAJ9r1vn0MhwtcmZbitKKmTbI3tgTFgCdEuQ4 4LgnSI0XKcy3Yg4izEimmlo= =DTrF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----