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From: elric@imryrr.Eng.Sun.COM (Rick Heli)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: fonts.alias files and OpenWindows
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Date: 5 Feb 91 21:44:34 GMT
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>|> 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.

All the above is correct.  In addition, be aware that X11/NeWS does not use
the font.alias facility.  Instead, aliases are placed in the Families.list
file of each font directory.  The general format of this file is 

	Synonym		Fontname	_FontDirectorySYN

See the $OPENWINHOME/lib/fonts/Families.list near your for examples.



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