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From: whaley@june.cs.washington.edu (Ken Whaley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: adding a glyph to a loaded font in CLX
Summary: is it possible?
Message-ID: <8510@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 89 18:26:10 GMT
Reply-To: whaley@uw-june.UUCP (Ken Whaley)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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The subject and summary lines say it all.  I want to create a font of bitmaps
(relatively small ones, although I'm not sure that matters) that I've
designed.  I've investigated using xfd, but it wasn't clear to me what to
do with the font once I'd built one.  It seems it would be easier just to add
a bitmap to a font that's already loaded into the server, and has some empty
slots.  I don't care about maintaining consistency with the font character
parameters, I just want to use bitmaps through the font mechanism (believe me,
I *do* have reasons for this).  And, I want to do this with CLX.  Is this
possible?  Or, has someone out there actually used xfd to create a font and
used it in an application?  I'd be interested in hearing the step-by-step
method for doing that, too.

Thanks,
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whaley@june.cs.washington.edu