Bug 510885
| Summary: | Proper fonts not being downloaded for aplus-fsf package | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michael Rice <nowgate> | ||||||
| Component: | aplus-fsf | Assignee: | Jochen Schmitt <jochen> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | jochen | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-06-28 13:35:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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I asume, you ask, why aplus-fsf show different behaviour on installing relating of the font packages. The issue is, that I have tow diffent font packages (X11 and Truetype) in the past. After the new font policy, I have decided to provide only the Truetyp font package. So I may suggest that you dry to install the X11 font package and install aplus-fsf-KAPL-fonts. If you have any isue after this steps, please feel free to contact me again. What fonts should I install? I've already installed: TrueType fonts for the Advanced APL Interpreter aplus-fsf-KAPL-fonts-4.22.2-15.fc11 (noarch) It doesn't work. Listed below are the X11 fonts that are already installed and uninstalled (those preceded by an asterisk) according to my software installer. Are the APL fonts included in one of these packages? Which one? Why would fonts necessary to use the package *not* be included in the package, or at least downloaded along with the package. Michael ==================== * A set of 100dpi resolution fonts for the X Window System xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) A set of 75dpi resolution fonts for the X Window System xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) * A set of 100dpi ISO-8859-1 fonts for X xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) ISO8859-14-100dpi fonts xorg-x11-fonts-ISO-8859-14-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) ISO8859-14-75dpi fonts xorg-x11-fonts-ISO-8859-14-75dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) * ISO8859-15-100dpi fonts xorg-x11-fonts-ISO-8859-15-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) ISO8859-15-75dpi fonts xorg-x11-fonts-ISO-8859-15-75dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) * A set of 75dpi ISO-8859-1 fonts for X xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) ISO8859-9-100dpi fonts xorg.x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) ISO8859-9-75dpi fonts xorg.x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-75dpi-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) * misc bitmap fonts for the X Window System xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) * Type1 fonts provided by the X Window System xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-8.fc11 (noarch) Oops, error in last post. *Installed* fonts are preceded by asterisk. Sorry. Michael (In reply to comment #2) > What fonts should I install? > > I've already installed: > TrueType fonts for the Advanced APL Interpreter > aplus-fsf-KAPL-fonts-4.22.2-15.fc11 (noarch) > > It doesn't work. That should be the right package. It may be nice, if you can look into the control-center to check, that the Font KAPL was installed properly for X11. Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt Can you try out anything like xterm -fa 'KAPL' "control center"??? What's that? And how do I "look into" it? I've already tried: xterm -fa 'KAPL' It gives me the italic APL font, but none of the APL special characters are accessible. You needn't take my word for it, here's a quote from STEVEA re my OP on Fedora Forum: "Hmm, you may want to file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com. You should be getting more fonts than just the KAPL.ttf font, and that font doesn't even work in xterm." Michael OK, I have investigate some examination. You may fix you issue, if you are doing the following steps: 1.) cp /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm-apl /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm 2.) Start xterm -fa 'KAPL' Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt I don't know if this is pertinent, but I'm not networked. Perhaps there's a different command for a stand-alone system? Michael [michael@localhost ~]$ cp /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm-apl /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm-apl': No such file or directory [michael@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost michael]# cp /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm-apl /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xterm-apl': No such file or directory [root@localhost michael]# Perhaps you have accidently remove the file XTerm-apl. This file you may find in the aplus-fsf package. I haven't tried this yet, but here's a post from Fedora Forum. Apparently you had a typo in your earlier post. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=225989&goto=newpost Maybe you can figure out why the keyboard doesn't produce the APL special characters according to the A+ Documentation (in the same post). More later. Michael None of my lowercase APL special characters are getting printed when I press the Alt-<key>. However the characters *are* being properly passed to the evaluator and return the correct answers. Examples: A<-1 ;(<- should be APL assignment arrow Alt+[ ) A ;This is what's seen when it's keyed in A ;Just typing in A will evaluate A, returning its value 1 A<-1 2 ;give A a different value, a vector A 1 2 6/2 ;(/ (slash) should be APL special divide symbol Alt+= ) 6 ;This is what's seen when keyed in 3 ;returns the correct answer 3*2 ;(* should be APL special multiply symbol Alt+- 3 2 ;This is what's seen when keyed in 6 ;returns correct answer i5 ;the i should be the APL special IOTA character Alt-i (index generator) ;This is what's seen when keyed in, i.e., nada 0 1 2 3 4 ;however, correct answer is printed Why aren't these APL lower-case characters getting printed when keyed in? Michael OK I assume, that you don't use the LANG="C" as default. So yuu have check to do the following steps: 1.) Make sure, that you have copy the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-apl file to /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm 2.) After that you can try to start export LANG="C"; xterm -fa 'KAPL' That's seems to fix the problem with the APL special character set in XTERM. Do you have any idea how to make the BACKSPACE key work properly? Also, the A+/XEmacs package doesn't seem to work either. Could you have a look at getting that operational? Thanks. Michael Created attachment 354502 [details]
Modified A+-Mode for XEmacs
I have tanke further investigation and find out, that there is an issue with xemacs.
So I have create a modified A+-Mode which I have attached to this ticket.
It may be nice, if you can copy this file to /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp and let me know about your success with it.
If the file may work for you, I may create a new aplus-fsf package which fixed the issue reported in this bug.
I copied a.el to /usr/share/xemacs/site-packages/lisp Then what? Michael Then you make start xemacs with a apl file to look, that the A+ Mode should work. Following your previous instructions, I don't get anything different than what I've been getting when I run XEmacs. However, if I put your a.el file in /usr/share//xemacs/site-packages/lisp/aplus-fsf rather than /usr/share//xemacs/site-packages/lisp replacing the one already there, XEmac 1) opens the (.apl) file name I gave it 2) A+ menus (A+ and A+Options) appear in the menu bar However, no APL character set is activated. If my above actions are correct so far, how do I proceed? Michael According to the A+ documentation (Section 5. The Emacs/A+ Interactive Environment) http://www.aplusdev.org/tutorials/GettingStarted.html if I start XEmacs and, when it opens, press the F4 function key the Emacs window should split into two buffers. The top buffer is now the scratch buffer, while the bottom one is an A+ session with the buffer title "*a*" This part now works as documented, except for the absence of the APL special characters. This is what my "*a*" buffer looks like after I type in a couple of expressions: ========== Starting... /usr/bin/a+: line 3: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (POXIS): No such file or directory /usr/bin/a+: line 3: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (POXIS) A+ Copyright (c) 1990-2008 Morgan Stanley. All rights reserved. This version is Release 4.22 sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (POXIS) Tue Jul 21 21:03:30 EDT 2009 on localhost.localdomain 1 1 1+2 3 ========= So, we are accessing the APL interpreter, but have no APL special characters. Michael OK. Please make the following checks. 1.) Exist the file /usr/share/fonts/aplus-fsf/fonts/KAPL.TTF ? 2.) If so, please try to execuate fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/aplus-fsf After this steps. please check, that the Font will be listed in the Fonts applet of the system settings [michael@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/share/fonts/aplus-fsf [michael@localhost aplus-fsf]$ ls fonts.dir fonts.scale KAPL.TTF [michael@localhost aplus-fsf]$ System settings? System/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts shows that the KAPL font is there. Michael Making any progress? Michael I have created aplus-fsf-4.22.4-19 for rawhide. Thsi package should fixed most of the issues reported in this bug. I have create a xterm-apl command which allows you to start a xterm session with the APL font and key mapping as the default. Unfortunately I have recorgnise some terminal related issues with the arrow keys when running the A+ interpreter in a xterm. Status report? Michael This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping As you can see, my last comment was a request for a status report. Since I never heard back I moved on to other things, so it won't break my heart if you close this out as WONTFIX. Michael Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Created attachment 351369 [details] Two posts from Fedora Forum. Download different for two different users Description of problem: Proper APL fonts not being downloaded with package (see attachment). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aplus-fsf-4.22.4-15.fc11 (i586) How reproducible: See attachment Steps to Reproduce: See attachment 1. 2. 3. Actual results: See attachment Expected results: See attachment Additional info: