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From: jtkohl@ELRIC.mit.edu (John T Kohl)
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Subject: Re: X font files - is there any method to the madness?
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 15:26:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 15:26:38 1987
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Summary: fx, sx and ssx are a hack

In article <1529@svax.cs.cornell.edu> pugh@svax.cs.cornell.edu (William Pugh) writes:
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>	What does "sx" and "ssx" mean when it occurs in the font name?
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This is from a (gross) hack done here at Project Athena during the semi-early
days of X (probably around Release 1 or 2), when some of the student
employees were playing with fonts.

'fx' means 'fixed width'
'sx' means 'scrunched fixed width'
'ssx' means 'super-scrunched fixed width'

'fx' fonts are just the variable width fonts made fixed width (with the
widest width being inherited by all the characters)

sx and ssx are versions of the variable-width fonts algorithmically
modified (by a program which may no longer exist) to fit in narrow and
narrower space, (with some pixels combined).

If you are interested in the program, Jim Aspnes (asp@athena.mit.edu)
(the author) may have it lying around somewhere.



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John Kohl
MIT/Project Athena