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From: jsrobin@chisti.umiacs.umd.edu (John S. Robinson)
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Subject: Re: X fonts
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Date: 23 Feb 90 22:50:59 GMT
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In article <19359@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> bregou@northstar71.dartmouth.edu (Lou Bregou) writes:
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>	
>	I am currently working with the X windows system on a project that requires a
>special character set; namely, the APL character set.  Currently we have several routes
>available to us for the implementation of our font:
>	We have an apl font sent to us from Colorado; the font is in the standard
>.bdf format.  However, there are some characters that we would like to edit, and if
>you or a friend of yours knows of any tools (like a .bdf font editor) 
>that will allow us to easily change the
>characters, I'd appreciate any help you could give us.  .......

In the contrib section of the R4 source code for X11 there is a .bdf font
editor called 'xfed' .