mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (09/20/90)
Archive-name: gallant-font/20-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU Original-subject: Re: really large font? Archive-site: larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu [132.206.4.3] Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) > NAIVE QUESTION: Is there a really large font in the standard mit > distribution suitable for use with xterm? Is one readily available > elsewhere? > I am using mit X11R4 on a sparcstation. I'd like a font like the one > the machine uses before you start up a windowing system; that is, > something large enough so that 24 rows and 80 columns fills the > entire screen. I think you'll find that with the default raw-console font, it's more like 90 columns by 40 lines. (Approximate values; I don't recall the actual ones.) In any case, there is somewhere available a program to convert from vfont format (the format Sun supplies fonts in /usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts in) to .bdf format. I do not recall where I found it, and cannot find my copy, but I can offer a bdf-format copy of gallant.r.19 (the font in question). Get it by from gallant.r.19.bdf on 132.206.1.1. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu