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From: raja@bombay.cps.msu.EDU (Narayan S. Raja)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Eye Friendly Fonts
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Date: 8 May 90 07:33:36 GMT
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In article <9005021602.AA27376@Morgan.COM>, (Jordan Hayes) writes:
|>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.

Besides manually editing DWIDTH in
the bdf file, I also had to fill
in the BITMAP for character 32 (space)
(with all zeros) to get it to work OK.
(Editing a bdf file is easy).


Narayan Sriranga Raja.