linux fonts and CMN

[To: cmdist]

CMN does run in ACL 4.3 under Linux.  The following
installs the Sonata font, but I haven't yet found a
postscript previewer or tried to send the CMN output to
a printer:

cd Sonata.font
cp Sonata /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/Sonata.pfa
 
   ;;; this works because the Sonata portion of the directory
   ;;; is actually the same format as the thing Linux calls 
   ;;; a .pfa file

cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1

   ;;; now su root if you can

emacs fonts.dir
add 1 to the first line (in my case I changed 16 to 17)
add this line:

Sonata.pfa -adobe-sonata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific

   ;;; this is the X form of the font spec

do the same in fonts.scale (this step may not be necessary -- I
omitted it and things seemed to work).

Now if fonts.alias does not exist on the Type1 directory, create
it (i.e. touch fonts.alias), then edit it and add the line:

Sonata -adobe-sonata-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific

   ;;; this creates the alias "Sonata" for the X font spec

now return to your home directory as yourself (not root, I think),
and

xset fp rehash

   ;;; this tells X to update the font path info

Now you should be able to use the Sonata font!  (i.e. xfd -fn Sonata)