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- From: kurt@dna.lth.se (Kurt Swanson)
- Subject: Font problems - Sun, Open-look V3
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.213130.16575@lth.se>
- Keywords: besvΣrlig
- Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server)
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:31:30 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- I need a font which is eight-bit, iso-8859-1, clean, and fixed-spaced,
- i.e. suitable for shelltool windows. The only ones my ol3 system
- seems to have that meet that criteria are Courier fonts - which, even
- though they are quite ugly, I could deal with, were it not for the
- fact that there are problems with them:
-
- 1: One font, adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-18-*, has a little dot below
- the right vertical segment of "h".
-
- 2: Many sizes, weights, fonts, all have a problem when erasing
- certain wide and/or tall characters. If, for example, I repeatedly
- type "w", <delete>, <space>; I get a line of dots - remnants from
- the left-most pixel of the "w", when I should have a blank line.
-
- 2a: When I "more" through a file, everytime I hit <space> or <return>
- on a line in the file having less characters than the more's
- prompt, I get a vertical line, similar to "|", where the cursor
- was.
-
- My questions are these:
-
- 1: Is there any ftp'able font editor for ol fonts?
-
- 2: What is the name of the default font in ol2 and ol3 (they are
- different) ?
-
- 3: Why are some font specifications scaleable, i.e. the -scale
- extra_large option yields a larger font, and others not?
-
- 4: Are there any other fonts, not included in the basic ol3 package,
- or updates to problem fonts (see above) available for ftp??
-
- 5: Any other solutions to the above problems?
-
- 6: Am I taking this font thing too seriously?
-
- Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
- --
- Kurt Swanson, Dept. of Computer Science,
- Lunds universitet. Kurt.Swanson@dna.lth.se
-