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- From: rr2b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Robert Andrew Ryan)
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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 19:44:33 GMT
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- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 22-Jul-92 Re: Is there any
- reason *no.. Bob_Dew@alw.nih.gov (2321*)
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- > The pertinent question, I think, is whether the user should be made
- > responsible for determining what type of X server is running, or whether
- such low-level details should be handled by the application.
-
- My point is that font issues are probably best handled by whatever
- administrative support handles default X startup scripts and such. I
- agree that the preference and environment variables are not a good
- solution for many people, for myself and some others it probably is a
- sufficient solution though.
-
- Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 22-Jul-92 Re: Is there any
- reason *no.. Bob_Dew@alw.nih.gov (2321*)
-
- > A better Andrew would be one in which xim.c handles multiple font paths,
- > or one where OW and MIT fonts are intermixed. The latter is easier to
- > carry out, and I believe quite acceptable as an X-server design
- > implementation.
-
- In the particular case of Open Windows and MIT fonts putting everything
- in the same directory indeed sounds like the way to go. But I believe
- in general the right approach is to get ATK out of the business of font
- path management. In an environment with multiple conflicting and
- incompatible font types the only really complete solution would be to
- have a configuration file which mapped vendor, release, and resolution
- information to a font directory. (Then there are the clever NCD X
- terminals which have DECWINDOWS at the front of the vendor string for
- compatibility, so regexp matching would probably be needed.) This seems
- like overkill...
-
- -Rob Ryan
- Andrew Consortium
-