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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: how do I change fonts in X Date: 1 Apr 1997 12:25:47 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5hqusb$kc1@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <5gpacr$mpo@eirene.wingnet.net> <5h94m1$gua@innocence.interface-business.de> <333db075.172648698@news.ascio.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6561 cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) wrote: > We won't even get into the length of the font names :) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > etc. I could never figure out why all that is so necessary, but anyhow, X > isn't what I deal with, and I just use it for fun, so I really didn't > bother taking the time to figure out why they couldn't have used > fontname.fontsize or something :) Because it's fairly impossible to express that you now want a font developed by Schumacher, named Clean, encoded for ISO646-1991, for 75x75 dpi displays, 10 pts in size, regular, proportional. In particular, if you want to show that it makes a difference to another font by DEC, named Clean, encoded for ISO646-1991, for 100x100 dpi displays, 10 pts in size, regular, proportional. :-) There might probably be more aliases for the most common fonts however. After all, X11 provides a means for aliases (fonts.alias), it's only that the vendors and users don't use it very much. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j