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From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: A place for distribution-specific fonts
Message-ID: <1809@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 89 20:59:56 GMT
Reply-To: dce@Solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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I'm in a little bit of a dilemma.  On one hand, our distribution of X
requires some fonts that aren't part of the standard supported fonts
(they're the Kanji and Kana fonts, which are part of the contrib
stuff).  On the other hand, if I change the fonts/bdf/misc directory so
that these fonts are there, I (or whoever is handling the distribution)
have to make the change every time there is a new X release.

We thought about changing our default font path, but this doesn't
help our X-terminal users, who will still have to use "xset" to
modify the font path.

My current plan is to add a distribution-specific directory that
will modify the existing fonts.dir and fonts.alias file when the
special fonts are installed, but it seems like the standard X
distribution could be a little better in allowing for this kind
of thing without having to modify the distribution.

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David Elliott		dce@Solbourne.COM
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