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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: User definable font aliases
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Date: 10 Apr 90 20:54:06 GMT
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    The system administrator can edit fonts.dir and fonts.alias, but there
    doesn't seem to be a way for the user to do this.  It would sure be
    nice for me to alias one of those very long font names to a common name
    that I'd like to use.  Anyone have ideas on this?

Depends on how your X server locates fonts.  If it has access to your file
system (either because it is running on a workstation, can do NFS or [T]FTP,
or has some sort of font server protocol):

	%  mkdir ~/myfonts
	%  emacs ~/myfonts/fonts.alias
	%  xset fp+ ~/myfonts		# put this in your .xsession/.xinitrc

If your server can't get at your file system, then you'll have to read your
vendor doc to see if there is another way to do it.