[comp.windows.x] Eye Friendly Fonts

jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (05/02/90)

Rick Heli <rheli@sun.COM> writes:

	I like the LucidaSans-Typewriter font [...] but if you're
	determined to use the SunView vfonts, the convertfont utility
	shipped with Sun's OpenWindows package can be used to convert
	vfonts to BDF (use the "-x" option).

With the caveat that the DWIDTH of space characters gets set to 0.
This is a bug, not a feature.  For thinks like cour-bold-16, this is
okay, but what happens to non-fixed-width fonts?  Dunno ...

/jordan

caf@omen.UUCP (WA7KGX) (05/05/90)

How can non-ftp-able sites obtain the Lucida font?

raja@bombay.cps.msu.EDU (Narayan S. Raja) (05/08/90)

In article <9005021602.AA27376@Morgan.COM>, (Jordan Hayes) writes:
|>Rick Heli <rheli@sun.COM> writes:
|>
|>	I like the LucidaSans-Typewriter font [...] but if you're
|>	determined to use the SunView vfonts, the convertfont utility
|>	shipped with Sun's OpenWindows package can be used to convert
|>	vfonts to BDF (use the "-x" option).
|>
|>With the caveat that the DWIDTH of space characters gets set to 0.
|>This is a bug, not a feature.

Besides manually editing DWIDTH in
the bdf file, I also had to fill
in the BITMAP for character 32 (space)
(with all zeros) to get it to work OK.
(Editing a bdf file is easy).


Narayan Sriranga Raja.