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From: janssen@parc.Xerox.COM (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: User definable font aliases
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Date: 11 Apr 90 05:20:17 GMT
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You should be able to create a new directory, put a fonts.alias file in it,
index it (just run mkfontdir?), and add it to your font path.  I don't
think the
fonts.alias file needs to refer to a font in the current directory.

(Wait... let me try it...)

Yep:

2 % cd
3 % xlsfonts 'foobar'
xlsfonts: pattern "foobar" unmatched
4 % mkdir myfonts
5 % cd myfonts
6 % echo 'foobar
-b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-8-80-75-75-p-49-iso8859-1' >fonts.alias
7 % mkfontdir
8 % xset fp+ ~/myfonts
9 % xlsfonts 'foobar'
foobar
10 % 

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