Sorry again. Re-read first post. I forgot the "12a/font" part since it wasn't displayed in the ls. Now it works as I had hoped. This totally answers my question. Thank you all! Blake On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > I see. Sorry. I tried two different ones and I got: > > can't open font file /mnt/font/Courier: bad height or ascent in font file > can't open font file /mnt/font/Menlo-Regular: bad height or ascent in > font file > > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:14 PM, andrey mirtchovski > wrote: > >> see the first reply in this thread >> >> >> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, Blake McBride wrote: >> >>> Okay. I build and installed fontsrv. I have it running. Now when I >>> do: >>> >>> 9p ls font >>> >>> it lists all the fonts on my system. One of them is "Courier". From >>> acme, I tried: >>> >>> Font Courier >>> >>> But that doesn't work. It tells me: >>> >>> can't open font file Courier: No such file or directory >>> >>> It seems fontsrv is working or the 9p ls font wouldn't work. How can I >>> access the font from acme? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Blake >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Blake McBride wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Blake McBride >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > I'm sure I can get it to compile but I don't see the point. >>>>> >>>>> The point is that fontsrv allows p9p programs (including acme) to use >>>>> whatever true-type font you already have on the system. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Now that is valuable information!! Thanks! >>>> >>>> Blake >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >