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From: dal@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Dale Schumacher)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X default font too small
Summary: Help is on the way
Keywords: X,font,size
Message-ID: <1203@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG>
Date: 13 Sep 89 19:33:22 GMT
References: <250DC352.2FFA@marob.masa.com>
Reply-To: dal@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Dale Schumacher)
Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul MN
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In article <250DC352.2FFA@marob.masa.com> samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) writes:
|It seems to me that the letters in the default X text font are too
|small (and may be harmful after long hours of use?), while the
|next larger font (9x15) results in an ugly overly wide 24x80 xterm
|window. I've tried using some of the fancy new fonts, and although
|some of them result in pretty characters that are easy to read,
|text updates are slow, and the non-fixed spacing yields strange
|effects, like seeing what you type appear far away from the end of
|the shell prompt. I think the SunView default font is just about
|the right size, not too small or too big/wide. Is there any way to
|get an snf file for the default SunView font? Any other suggestions
|on choosing comfortible font sizes? Thanks!

Help is on the way.  I have upwards of 60 new hand-crafted bitmap fonts in
sizes from 4x6 to 8x16 which I am contributing to the X consortium.  If they
are good enough, maybe a few will be included in the base distribution, but
I expect the entire set will show up in contrib.  I've sent about a dozen
samples to Jim Fulton for evaluation and have said he can make them available
for others if desired.  I don't have direct access to FTP, so I can't just
put them all on expo.  Also, I'm fighting with the ambiguous and incomplete
documentation of the BDF format, so I'm holding the complete set back until
I'm more certain that the BDF translation of my native font format is good.
Is there any interest in me posting maybe half a dozen fonts directly here?
If so, what bitmap sizes are most desired (they are designed for 75dpi)?

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    Dale Schumacher	<dal@syntel.mn.org>	umn-cs!bungia!syntel!dal