From: barr@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barr) Subject: Re: SoftWare. Date: 29 Jul 1992 17:38:37 GMT
awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Andrew Watts) writes:
>Two things,
>First: What X programs do others use for wordprocessing and the like? (I'm
>hoping someone will say something other than VI, and not TeX, perhaps some
>other suggestions?)
Someone is working on porting Interviews to linux. I haven't ever
seen this software package, but I've heard that it includes a wysiwyg
word processing program for X.
>Second: (pretty trivial, but anyhow) I was trying to compile xhextris from
>the contrib area of X11 ftp areas, well, it compiles fine, but (always a but
>isnt there :) I get this error -
># xhex
>Welcome, root...
>X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
> Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
> Value in failed request: 0x2
> Serial number of failed request: 4
> Current serial number in output stream: 5
>#
I think xhextris comes with a file called xhextris.bdf. You need to type:
bdftopcf < xhextris.bdf > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/xhextris.pcf
cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts
mkfontdir .
If you are running X when you do this, the font will not show up
immediately, and you will have to type 'xset fp rehash' before you run
xhextris. It will be loaded automatically the next time you run
'startx'.
David