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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
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> it lists all the fonts on my system.  One of them is "Courier".  From
> acme, I tried:
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> Font Courier
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> But that doesn't work.  It tells me:
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> 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
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>
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blake@mcbride.name');>
> > wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Aram Hăvărneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'aram.h@mgk.ro');>
>> > wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'blake@mcbride.name');>>
>>> 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
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