janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (11/17/89)
I've transformed the fonts for x11news, and can report the following
procedure as successful:
1) Create the .bdf files for the fonts with X11R4-beta version of the
Andrew fdbbdf converter program (the R3 version has a bug which
affects the process).
2) Use
X11R3/contrib/toolkits/andrew/overhead/fonts/fonts/andy/linkfonts.sh to
link in the `andy*' forms of the names, as MIT's fonts.alias is not
supported under x11news.
3) Use the following script to run the OpenWindows font compiler on the
bdf fonts:
foreach font ( `ls *.bdf` )
convertfont -f 80 -n ${font:r} $font
end
4) Use `bldfamily -f 80' to create the directory index.
5) Place the Andrew font directory before the normal font directory on
your font path to avoid collision with Sun's icon and cursor fonts.
6) You will still lose, because some formulation of the bdf files
causes either convertfont or the window system to miscount the position
of the glyphs in the font. This means that the window system doesn't
believe that you have glyphs for lower-case characters. I reported this
about 3 weeks ago, and haven't heard anything yet.
Bill