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[liling tan]

Dear all,

As an interim solution, Yi Zhang has suggested to fall-back to 2009-02-22
build.

Possibly it's because some of our ubuntu builds included the adobe font
which Allegro can fallback to, so it works and some of the machines without
the adobe font fall-back into "asian" character font.

I've tried a fresh installation with the latest installation script and,
for my own machine, when loading lkb it manage to fall back to several
fonts and ultimately ends at:

-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific


Loading lkb ends with the following warning (the full error can be viewed
at http://shrib.com/Tf3D6Ja1):

Warning: Fallback font
         -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific,
         for character set 32, matches with XListFonts,
but is not loadable by XLoadFont or XQueryFont.  Something may be wrong
         with the X font
setup.


but up till now all the grammars load fine and the "View" and "Parse"
functions are also working fine.

Regards,
liling


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yi Zhang <yzhang at coli.uni-sb.de>
Date: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM
Subject: LKB GUI font issue

i just tested latest build of lkb with the latest version of Ubuntu (12),
and also ran into the same font problem (asian fonts in the menu). it seems
that the fallback fonts were not set properly.

so i went back to use previous builds of lkb, and found that
"builds/2009-02-22" works fine for me. just change the following line in
the installation script from

build="latest"

 to

build="builds/2009-0222"

or use the install-old script from
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~yzhang/ge/install-old

i realize that quite a few people in our class are suffering from this
issue right now. please forward to those who are not on the list but have
the same issue. maybe this can serve as an interim solution, until a new
build of lkb becomes available.

cheers,
yi


> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ann Copestake
> <Ann.Copestake at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Problem 2
> > M-x lkb started the lkb system but the english words that are
> suppposedly on the lkbtop interface became some unknown "asian" character.
>
> I had a similar problem when trying to do an LKB installation on
> Knoppix, but it went away when I switched to Ubuntu, oddly enough.  My
> guess is there's some specific font package causing problems, but I
> haven't been able to figure out which one.  If you have two machines
> with the same Ubuntu release, one of which works and the other of
> which doesn't, it would be interesting to see the output of "dpkg
> --get-selections" for both machines.
>
> --
> David Brodbeck
> System Administrator,?Linguistics
> University of Washington
>
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:55:53 +0200
> From: Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no>
> To: David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu>
> Cc: alvations at gmail.com, developers at delph-in.net
> Subject: Re: [developers] forwarding request for help (bounce from lkb
>        list)
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>
> g'day,
>
> weird asian characters in LKB windows, i think,
> can be caused by missing Xorg bitmap fonts (to
> pick up newly installed fonts, one may have to
> restart the X server).
>
> further, the problem of the LKB binaries just not
> starting up could be related to a lack of 32-bit
> compatibility libraries.  comparing the lists of
> installed packages across machines that do
> or don't work should be illuminating, indeed.
>
> best, oe
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:10 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ann Copestake
> > <Ann.Copestake at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Problem 2
> >> M-x lkb started the lkb system but the english words that are
> suppposedly on the lkbtop interface became some unknown "asian" character.
> >
> > I had a similar problem when trying to do an LKB installation on
> > Knoppix, but it went away when I switched to Ubuntu, oddly enough. ?My
> > guess is there's some specific font package causing problems, but I
> > haven't been able to figure out which one. ?If you have two machines
> > with the same Ubuntu release, one of which works and the other of
> > which doesn't, it would be interesting to see the output of "dpkg
> > --get-selections" for both machines.
> >
> > --
> > David Brodbeck
> > System Administrator,?Linguistics
> > University of Washington
>
>
>
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