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From: jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Eye Friendly Fonts
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Date: 2 May 90 16:02:42 GMT
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Rick Heli <rheli@sun.COM> writes:

	I like the LucidaSans-Typewriter font [...] but if you're
	determined to use the SunView vfonts, the convertfont utility
	shipped with Sun's OpenWindows package can be used to convert
	vfonts to BDF (use the "-x" option).

With the caveat that the DWIDTH of space characters gets set to 0.
This is a bug, not a feature.  For thinks like cour-bold-16, this is
okay, but what happens to non-fixed-width fonts?  Dunno ...

/jordan