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From: tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu ("Timothy J. Horton")
Subject: Re: Fonts, fonts, everywhere...
Message-ID: <91Jan22.195117est.8641@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
Keywords: Motif font
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 23 Jan 91 00:51:27 GMT
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pjp@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com writes:
>Is there a font that is common to all hardware platforms? I've noticed that
>when I switch from the DECstation to the VAXstation, the DEFAULT_CHAR_SET
>that is chosen is different, resulting in the effective lengths of labels,
>lists, text, etc. being different, and hence, 'running into each other'.
>If I could guarantee that the same font is used, then the layout of the 
>dialogs would be the exact same.  Could this be defined in the app-defaults
>file, or does it have to be hard-coded?

You could either carry around your own font and add it to the fonts directory,
or use one of the fonts in the original X distribution (although it seems that
not all porting outfits understand that there ever was a semi-standard set of
fonts -- my SCO port is missing many of them).  Of this set, one of either
6x10, 6x12, 8x13, or 9x15 (all "I think"s) is likely to fit your bill, if
you can tolerate fixed width fonts.  These normally live in the "misc" sub-
directory of your fonts directory.

T