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From: karln@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: fonts.alias files and OpenWindows
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.234053.724@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 4 Mar 91 23:40:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan26.011432.15250@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1991Jan28.132056@Unify.com> <1991Jan29.163439.13623@mlb.semi.harris.com>
Reply-To: karln@karln.UUCP ()
Organization: Sam76 - Pennington NJ
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In article <1991Jan29.163439.13623@mlb.semi.harris.com> geg@beep.mlb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland) writes:
>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.
>

  I have problems as well. The man pages, and convertfont, say that convert
font does NOT know .snf type font files. I am currently stuck in many
places because X11/NeWS fonts do not have the fonts needed.

For example, I am trying to use a program named acm (air combat simulator), 
an X11 program. It will not run because it says that

"acm: display karln:0 doesn't know font *courier-bold-r-normal--17*"

which is of course some sort of font error. I first considered the
convertfont, xset and buildfamily but I get nowhere ..

Any help is needed ..

thanks in advance

karln!karln@uunet.uu.net