We place the ttf/fonts directory outside the ROOT binary tree because we don't want to force the users to download everytime the ttf fonts directory. The fonts are typically shared by many apps. Actually when building ROOT from source the ./configure script sets the TTFontPath to where ./configure discovers the ttf font files (might be something like /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/ttf). For the binary distribution the system.rootrc should be patched for the local ttf font path. This could be done automatically with the same ./configure algorithm. Cheers, Fons. On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:52, Ezio Maina wrote: > Dear Rooters, > is there any special reason (which escapes me) > to have Unix.*.Root.TTFontPath point to $(HOME)/ttf/fonts > instead of $(ROOTSYS)/ttf in ~root/etc/system.rootrc?. > In this second case TrueType fonts would work right > out of the box. > > best regards, > Ezio -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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