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From: ekberg@asl.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How were the X fonts created?
 > Since the only readily available font editor for X is a user-contributed
 > program, how were (are) the X fonts created in the first place?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 15:18:46 GMT
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A number of the MIT X11 fonts are the same as were in the MIT Lisp Machine.
This machine had a very nice font editor, much nicer than the one that comes
with X.  My point is that those fonts have been around for quite a while.  As
to the other fonts, they were probably generated using some other in-house font
editor and then ported to X.

  -- tom, ekberg@asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)