On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: [Very informative font discussion snipped]
> What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is > > -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 > > which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named 'courier' > using the iso8859-1 encoding, at 10 points. But it's unfortunately > common among programs to either (a) record the full name of the font, > including point size and DPI, so when you change server DPI the font > doesn't follow, or (b) use legacy font names like '6x9', which refer > to character-cell bitmap fonts exactly six pixels wide and nine tall. Thanks. This would explain my observations and is far more specific a reason than the one I proposed. A quick check with a netscape setting in .Xresources shows that the -dpi setting is honoured for the menu fonts when I put Netscape*fontList:-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-0-0-*-*-iso8859-* However, I had to have 0 for xres and yres rather than a * for this to work. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
