Re: installing a true type font in root

Hi Alfio,

see documentation of class TAttText at
http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TAttText.html

Rene Brun

Alfio wrote:
> Jacques Goldberg ha scritto:
>> Adding a small tip which it took me long to discover.
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>> If you wisely use SLC Linux (CERN) and wisely use it with Gnome as
>> window manager, then
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>> if you open the File Browser application (for example from the
>> graphical menu), and enter
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>> fonts:/// (THREE slashes) where it asks for "Location", you can
>> see all the fonts available
>>
>> in your system. A good tip to verify that the installation succeeded.
>>
>>
>> Jacques
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>> Jacques Goldberg wrote:
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> Hi Jacques,
> the problem is not installing TTF in my system (Linux),
> but that ROOT can handle them...
> In principle if in .rootrc it is set
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> Root.UseTTFonts: true
> Unix.*.Root.TTFontPath: $(HOME)/ttf/fonts
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> ROOT should know where the new true type fonts are...
> Anyway I have no idea how to pick those fonts in ROOT
> I see always the 13 default fonts if I look in SetTextAttribute of
> wathever text object....
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> Is there any root env variable to see the list of the available fonts?
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> Cheers
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Received on Tue Feb 02 2010 - 18:42:08 CET