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From: jeanne@jksmith.AUstin.ibm.COM
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Subject: Re: xwindows fonts and bdf files
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Date: 6 Sep 89 19:19:24 GMT
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In his message of September 2, Mark Whetzel writes
>"  On our AIX 2.2.1 RT sys IBM so elegantly forgot some of the 'standard'
>MIT X fonts.  As an example, acording to our NUTSHELL books there are
>supposed to be six vr-xx fonts available ...."

I believe Mark was confused by the term "Standard" in the title of
Appendix C.  "Common Fonts" would be a better title.
Standards are set by the MIT Consortium not the NUTSHELL handbooks.
The STANDARDS document in the top layer of the MIT Release 3 tape
contains the following statement:
"None of the fonts provided in fonts/bdf/ are Consortium standards;  vendors
are free to ship whatever fonts they desire.  The font naming scheme used
for the Adobe, Bitstream, and Digital fonts is under review by the
Consortium as a standard.  This scheme is described in
doc/fontsnames/fnames.txt."

In addition, Appendix C of Volume 3 of the O'Reilly pubs, the "X Window
System User's Guide", states the following:
"This appendix should tell you everyting you need to know about the fonts in
the X distribution.  Not every font may be supported by particular server
vendors, and some vendors may supplement the set. ..."

It is true that some of the fonts listed in Appendix C are not on the
RT.  It is also true that the RT contains 14 fonts created especially for
it.

Jeanne Smith
IBM Austin