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From: geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: fonts.alias files and OpenWindows
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.163439.13623@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 16:34:39 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.011432.15250@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1991Jan28.132056@Unify.com>
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In article <1991Jan28.132056@Unify.com>, grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
|> In article <1991Jan26.011432.15250@mprgate.mpr.ca>, murphy@photon.mpr.ca (Gail
|> Murphy) writes:
|> 
|> > Are font paths added using xset fp+, particular fonts.alias files,
|> > recognized by the X11/NeWS server?
|> > 
|> 
|> Yes... you can use xset to set the font path.  The problem that you are
|> experiencing though, is that the X11/NeWS server does not recognize fonts
|> in the X11 snf format.  It uses an X11/NeWS font format.  You need to
|> convert the X11 fonts to X11/NeWS fonts in order to use them.  Conversion
|> is done by using convertfont to do the translation to the correct format,
|> then using bldfamily to create the font family files.  See the man pages
|> for the proper flags, synonym files, etc.
|> 

This doesn't work for me; it just recreates the *.list files in the format
that the Xnews server likes.  It doesn't tell me any way to recreate the
font.alias names from the MIT X11 font directories.

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