Re: [Bkchem-user] greek letters

[Beda Kosata]

Hello,

oc-spam66 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Do you use some non-standard font?
> 
> If I do, I am not aware of it ! I have a rather clean Debian testing and
> I don't remember installing a special font package.
> 
> Are you using gnome ? I use fvwm as a window manager, but can run any
> gnome application without font problem.
> 

I am using Xfce4.

>> this is interesting. It seems like a problem with font. Do you use some
>> non-standard font? Tk (which BKChem uses internally) comes with
>> helvetica, times and courier. I believe that these should work properly.
>> Could you please try to change the font (right-click, properties, font)
>> to see if it does this with every font of if it is font specific (as I
>> would expect).
> 
> I got a long list of fonts. Most of them give exactly the same output as
> in the
> file attached to my e-mail a few days ago (i.e. alpha not correctly
> rendered).
> 
> I finally found two fonts which could display the greek letter alpha :
> "fixed" and "gothic"...
> 

The fonts supplied with Tk should be at the top. It is really strange
that only two fonts work for you :(
I am attaching a simple script that could help us determine if the
problem is somewhere in BKChem or in the Tk library of the python-tk
bindings.
Could you please tell me if you see 3 alphas or something different when
running the test code?

        Best regards

                Beda

> I have no clue...
> 
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> 
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Bedrich Kosata
Laboratory of Informatics and Chemistry
ICT Prague
Czech Republic

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