Hi, Can anydody tell me what means this ? courO14-l2.pcf.Z -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2 Milan Hromada tel.: +421 862 401335 <A HREF="mailto:mhromada@elas.sk">mailto:mhromada@elas.sk</A> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On 09-Sep-98 Milan Hromada Unix-technik wrote:
Can anydody tell me what means this ?
courO14-l2.pcf.Z -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
courO14-l2.pcf.Z The name of a compressed font definition file (probably somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/) -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2 is the X11 font name:-- -adobe: from Adobe ("foundry") -courier: font "family" (e.g. "times", "courier", "helvetica") -medium: "weight" (i.e. thickness) -o: "slant" (oblique) -normal: character width (e.g. unlike "condensed" which is narrow) -: Nul designation for extras such as "serifs" -14: pixel-size of character -140: point size (not sure of units, maybe 1/10 point) -75: x (horizontal) resolution in dots per inch -75: y (vertical) resolution in dots per inch -m: Don't know this but it can take values c m or p -90: Average width of character (same units as point size) -iso8859-2: ISO-8859 character set (Central European in this case) In any X11 font directory containing font definition files you will (or should) find a file fonts.dir which gives the correspondence between the font definition files (like courO14-l2.pcf.Z) and the X11 font names (as analysed above). You should also find a file fonts.alias which gives a short name for the font with the long X11 name (as above): for most applications you can use the short alias as well as the long X11 name to designate the font to be used, provided this file is in place. The chain is: (short alias)->(long X11 name)->(font definition file) Best I can do -- hope it helps! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 09-Sep-98 Time: 13:57:40 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
On Sep 09, 1998, Ted Harding wrote:
On 09-Sep-98 Milan Hromada Unix-technik wrote:
Can anydody tell me what means this ?
courO14-l2.pcf.Z -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
courO14-l2.pcf.Z The name of a compressed font definition file (probably somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/)
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................ You should also find a file fonts.alias which gives a short name for the font with the long X11 name (as above): for most applications you can use the short alias as well as the long X11 name to designate the font to be used, provided this file is in place.
Great exposition, Ted. Now for a couple of questions inspired by your post: 1. Not all my X11 font directories have 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.scale' files in them. Why not? Is there something I need to do to generate those files? 2. I've gotten very interested in how X handles and uses fonts, but I have yet to find a good general reference or overview. Any suggestions? Howard Arons -- Powered by SuSE Linux 5.2 -- kernel 2.0.33 Communications by Mutt 0.93.2 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
The best advice re. fonts in x is: they suck, install and run a truetype font server if you want a nice selection of fonts for x. <A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/Xfstt-0.9.9.tgz"><A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/Xfstt-0.9.9.tgz</A">http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/Xfstt-0.9.9.tgz</A</A>> <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/files/xfstt-0.9.9.tgz"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/files/xfstt-0.9.9.tgz</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/files/xfstt-0.9.9.tgz</A</A>> Then add 'xfstt &' to /sbin/init.d/random (or /sbin/init.d/boot.local if you run 5.3) and 'killall xfstt' to /sbin/init.d/halt.local, add the fontpath to your .xinitrc as per the xfstt documentation, and you are good to go. Howard Arons wrote:
On Sep 09, 1998, Ted Harding wrote:
On 09-Sep-98 Milan Hromada Unix-technik wrote:
Can anydody tell me what means this ?
courO14-l2.pcf.Z -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
courO14-l2.pcf.Z The name of a compressed font definition file (probably somewhere under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/)
[informative details snipped]
................ You should also find a file fonts.alias which gives a short name for the font with the long X11 name (as above): for most applications you can use the short alias as well as the long X11 name to designate the font to be used, provided this file is in place.
Great exposition, Ted. Now for a couple of questions inspired by your post:
1. Not all my X11 font directories have 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.scale' files in them. Why not? Is there something I need to do to generate those files?
2. I've gotten very interested in how X handles and uses fonts, but I have yet to find a good general reference or overview. Any suggestions?
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