[XeTeX] pfaedit

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 8 août 05 à 02:27, Will Robertson a écrit :

> Once you've installed fontforge, you'll then need something like  
> the following in a file called .bash_profile in your home  
> directory, which you'll need to create with pico or emacs or vi,  
> etc., which contains something like the following:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
> export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin: 
> $HOME/bin
>
> (These instructions assume that when you type "echo $SHELL" in  
> Terminal, you get "/bin/bash". If not, you can tell Terminal to use  
> bash in its preferences.)
>
> You'll also have had to install X11.app from Apple, which may have  
> taken place when you installed Mac OS X. If you don't have it in / 
> Applications/Utilities/, I believe you can install it from  
> somewhere in apple.com.
>
> Finally, you should then be able to open the X11 application, then  
> go back to Terminal.app and type "fontforge" and be all good.  
> Fingers crossed!

In case you're not willing to edit/add configuration files, you can  
either:

- Launch FontForge (the current name of PfaEdit) from Terminal, by  
typing

     open-x11 fontforge

- Launch FontForge from X11 itself, by typing

     /usr/local/bin/fontforge

- In X11, go to the menu item Applications > Customize Menu..., and  
add an item

     Menu Name = FontForge
     Command = /usr/local/bin/fontforge

This will add a FontForge item to the Applications menu.

The reason why the command "fontforge" isn't recognized by X11 (so  
that you'll have to type the full path /usr/local/bin/fontforge) is  
that xterm -- the terminal window in X11 -- doesn't inherit the  
default path setting; in technical terms, it's not a login shell.

When the GhostScript i-Packags is installed, and you choose CLI  
(command line interface) activation, then /usr/local/bin is added to  
the default path by modifying the files /etc/csh.login (for people  
whose shell is tcsh) and /etc/profile (for people whose shell is  
bash). This affects all accounts for a given Mac, but only affects  
Terminal, not X11; hence the command open-x11 to launch X11 processes  
from Terminal.

There isn't such easy customization of X11, affecting the xterm  
default path for all accounts on a Mac. You would need, account by  
account, to create a file ~/.xinitrc, paste there the content of /etc/ 
X11/xinit/xinitrc and then modify it to add the path /usr/local/bin  
(don't ask me what the modification should be, I've no idea). Because  
it would need to be made for each and every account on a Mac, this  
step has not been added to the installation of the relevant i-Packages.

All this to be taken with a grain of salt, given I'm not at all a X11  
specialist; all the above is mainly wisdom pasted from messages by  
other people, and I may have misunderstood them.

Hope this helps,

Bruno Voisin