crm@duke.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) (10/23/87)
Okay, so "one does not" build fonts for X with metafont. How DOES one build fonts for metafont? Along the same lines (what prompted the question to start with) is there a font somewhere suitable for big letters in xterm? -- Charlie Martin (crm@cs.duke.edu,mcnc!duke!crm^PL
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (10/24/87)
|Okay, so "one does not" build fonts for X with metafont. How DOES one |build fonts for metafont? | |Along the same lines (what prompted the question to start with) is there |a font somewhere suitable for big letters in xterm? You meant to say "build fonts for X" I suppose. Maybe take an existing font and hack at each character with a bitmap editor? If all you want to do is an 8x13 font, maybe this is fastest. I made a font for lpr banners long long ago this way. Didn't dcm post a X font editor sometime back? Ken
gerald@ge1cbx.UUCP (Gerald Aden) (12/16/87)
Is there a program for editing fonts? Also, is there a program that converts SUN fonts to X fonts? Thanks in advance, Gerald Aden -- Quotron Systems Inc. | Phone: (213)827-4600 x4254 5454 Beethoven Street | uucp: ...!trwrb!scgvaxd!janus!ge1cbx!gerald Post Office Box 66914 | Los Angeles, CA 90066 |
schultz@NRL-AIC.ARPA (Alan Schultz) (05/20/88)
I am porting a large system written to work under X.V10 on a uVax to a Sun running X.V11R2. In this code, the fonts "cmr7", "cnt57", and "helv12" are used extensively. Looking in the /usr/lib/X11/fonts directory, I see a lot of fonts, but none of the above. Looking on the uVax that the system used to work on, i found the fonts there, but they end in ".onx" suffixes. Question: which fonts in X11 are closest to the ones listed above? Is there a way to convert the .onx fonts to .snf fonts? Thank you, Alan C. Schultz Code 5510 Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCAR A I) Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C. 20375-5000 ARPA: schultz@nrl-aic.arpa (202) 767-2877
ogata@LEVIATHAN.CS.UMD.EDU (Jeff Ogata) (06/14/88)
anyone know where I can ftp-anonymous X11 fonts from? happy trails, - Jeff
rusty@velveeta.berkeley.edu (rusty wright) (06/15/88)
In article <8806140518.AA06853@leviathan.cs.umd.edu> ogata@LEVIATHAN.CS.UMD.EDU (Jeff Ogata) writes: > >anyone know where I can ftp-anonymous X11 fonts from? There is a program to convert from mac fonts to bdf format in the contrib direcotry on expo; I've been using it to convert some public domain mac fonts. I'll put them on expo in the contrib directory either in a tar file or (if I can get ftp to make a sub directory) in the subdirectory fonts_mac in the contrib directory. -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@cartan.berkeley.edu ucbvax!cartan!rusty
tap@gumby.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Thomas A Peterson) (12/29/88)
I have a question with regard to font information:
In Release 2, the per_char value of a XFontStruct was null when
the font was fixed in size, but now in Release 3 it points to
some real per_char information (at least for the 9x15 font), even
though all characters have the same size, WHY?
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bang : {umn-cs,ems,mmm}!srcsip!taprws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (12/30/88)
In Release 2, the per_char value of a XFontStruct was null when
the font was fixed in size, but now in Release 3 it points to
some real per_char information (at least for the 9x15 font), even
though all characters have the same size, WHY?
Because R2 was broken, and R3 has is righter. 9x15 has constant
character-width, but not constant side bearings, ascent, or descent.
"Terminal" fonts like 9x15 were lying about their "ink" metrics in R2,
but are reporting real metrics in R3.
Also, note that even if a font has constant metrics, the protocol
does not *require* that the per-char stuff be returned empty;
it's an "if", not an "if and only if".tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) (01/04/89)
In article <8812301258.AA08155@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes: >Because R2 was broken, and R3 has is righter. 9x15 has constant >character-width, but not constant side bearings, ascent, or descent. >"Terminal" fonts like 9x15 were lying about their "ink" metrics in R2, >but are reporting real metrics in R3. On a related but not-identical X11R3 issue... we have an application which (for reasons that seem good to us) would like to refresh an area of text by overwriting the text with XDrawImageString. This is having some subtle problems: 1. when the font metrics are slightly off e.g. roman overwriting oblique adobe-courier-xxxx, and 2. When we overwrite white-on-black with black-on-white in the same font. The problem is that little bits of what was there are sometimes left behind showing around the edges of the new text (looks like an underscore in case #2). Now #1 is probably OK, and we are investigating work-arounds, including twiddling the font, but we can't seem to figure out what XDrawImageString really does. One piece of documentation says it will overwrite the bounding box of the actual string argument, but this is clearly not true (try passing it a string of underscores to show this); presumably then, the bounding box is either font.ascent to font.descent or perhaps font.max_bounds.ascent to font.max_bounds.descent, but none of these seem to be correct. What's the real poop? If nobody knows I'll go thrash through the source, but there's lots of things I'd rather do... Or am I missing something obvious? Thanks in advance, Tim Bray, New Oxford English Dictionary Project, U of Waterloo
rusho@HYDROGEN.CHEM.UTAH.EDU (09/08/90)
I have recently compiled a program but when I go to execute it, it says: Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font Anyone have any ideas about what could cause this? <<<Jon>>> * rusho@hydrogen.chem.utah.edu * * 2020 Henry Eyring Building * * University of Utah * * Salt Lake City, UT 84112 *
clive@aldetec.oz.au (Clive Salvidge) (09/14/90)
Can someone out there tell me where I can get a copy of the JISX fonts (mentioned in X Window system users guide - Volume 3) from??? Thankx... ..Clive -- __________________________________________________________________________ Clive Salvidge ACSnet : clive@aldetec.oz | Internet : clive@aldetec.oz.au Aldetec Pty Ltd. Voice : +61-9-4451888 0900 - 1700 WST _____________< Got to think of something to put in here! >________________
singh@ccicpg.UUCP (Surinder Singh) (10/06/90)
I would really appreciate, if someone can tell me how to make fonts. Any literature, books or documents, which talk about the subject. Surinder
wa@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (william.au) (06/27/91)
I have both X11R4 and openwin on my SPARC. There are fonts that I can used only when I run X11R4 but not when I am running openwin. What do I have to do to move these fonts form X11R4 to openwin?