[CM] Sonata.pfa anyone?

[Orm Finnendahl]

Hi Bill,

 thanks for the answer. I found the cmdist mail below from 1997 from
you in the archives that's why I asked. It seems, the Sonata font was
on CCRMAs linux machines one time.

Best,
Orm

> linux fonts and CMN (Bill Schottstaedt)
>
> Date: Mon, 19 May 97 09:36:17 PDT
> From: bil (To: cmdist)
> To: cmdist
> Subject: re: linux fonts and CMN
>
> 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)