[comp.windows.x] How were the X fonts created?

dws@cs.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson) (03/12/91)

Since the only readily available font editor for X is a user-contributed
program, how were (are) the X fonts created in the first place?

I looked in the FAQ but found no answer to this question.
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ekberg@asl.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg) (03/12/91)

A number of the MIT X11 fonts are the same as were in the MIT Lisp Machine.
This machine had a very nice font editor, much nicer than the one that comes
with X.  My point is that those fonts have been around for quite a while.  As
to the other fonts, they were probably generated using some other in-house font
editor and then ported to X.

  -- tom, ekberg@asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)