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From: donn@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Donn Cave)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Font Editor
Message-ID: <9012041900.AA17550@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:00:15 GMT
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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
|
|> I am looking for a font editor.
|
|> What I would like to do is be able to print the line segment and
|> corner glyphs availible in the fixed font in a xterm.  But when I
|> send the ascii value to a xterm they are interpeted as controls to
|> the xterm.
|
|You are trying to solve the wrong problem.  You don't need a font
|editor at all.

I didn't see the the original posting, Herr Mouse, and I have no quarrel
with your description of VT100 graphics, but it seems to me that if the
requisite graphics characters are not available in the font, they will
not be printed.  This is actually the case with at least one font I've
looked at, a Bitstream fixed font.  I used xfed to add the characters,
and now have VT100-style line-drawing.  Incidentally, a program from the
net was also rather helpful, created a bdf format file from the server's
font data - getbdf.c - I believe that's yours, not so?

So, while the original poster may indeed have been solving the wrong problem
he or she may have accidentally been asking a right question.

			Donn Cave
			University Computing Services
			University of Washington
			donn@cac.washington.edu