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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re:  Converting fonts to and from X
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Date: 11 Oct 90 19:18:23 GMT
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In article <9010100805.AA04713@duc220.uni-duisburg.de>, hj412fr@duc220.uni-duisburg.de (Frik) writes:
  Actually, I have tried this sort of conversion quite often, as I detest the 
  standard X-fonts. But when I try to convert those eye-saving DM-fonts I am
  used to (say f7x13) the resulting BDF (and SNF) font does not come out right
  in programs like xterm, emacs, epoch etc.: The metrics, in particular the
  inter-character spacing is way too small. Have you observed this too? Do you
  have any suggestions?

The inter-character spacing gets lost in the conversion.  What I do is set
the inter-character spacing to 0, and increase the width of each character
by the same amount that was the old inter-character spacing.  This can be
done globally in edfont, I think.  You can also use edfont to change the
name of the font to make it fit in with the X font naming scheme (whatever
that is).