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- From: Bob_Dew@ALW.NIH.GOV
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- Subject: Re: Is there any reason *not* to install OW fonts in "X11fonts"?
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:37:55 GMT
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- > The problem is that this only works when the formats don't conflict....
- > Ie here at CMU I sometimes run MIT R5, sometimes DEC R4, in this
- > particular case I can get away with using the MIT fonts, but what if the
- > MIT fonts didn't work with DEC and vice-versa, adding both font dirs
- > doesn't help if the wrong one is first... (and if the server isn't smart
- > enough to skip it.)
-
- > -Rob Ryan
- > Andrew Consortium
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- You could chain font paths effectively at the administrative level via
- .preferences if you could set a "*.fontpath", as you once could for the
- Andrew Window Manager.
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- Any way to work in a user-defined X11 fontpath into xim? That would
- probably be the best of all worlds.
-
- -Bob
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