Thanks for making this available; I used the one for 4.x, as I used the earlier one. It's very helpful.
There was one point in the instructions I got a little lost. It's in section 5.1 "The next subject of interest is where the .alias file should be put." You then refer to the .scale file belong in /etc/X11/fonts/TrueType. For those of us who didn't install the debian package, this directory does not exist. I'm probably fairly typical: I figured I'd use the fonts already on my drive, since I boot several OSs. So you need an instruction to create that directory, and then you need to say what files should be moved or copied there. I copied both of the fonts.* files I just created. This meant that when I executed the rm you gave, I was left with a .scale file in the directory. I suspect that was not the intent. By the way, the .scale file had entries that were not iso8859-1 (e.g., -3). Then the next problem comes in 5.3 at update-fonts-alias. For this to work with an argument of TrueType requires /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to exist. I made a symlink to the directory I started with. Now, here are a few other observations. wine kept crashing on me until I deleted the linotype-palatino fonts from the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/fonts.dir (copied to fonts.scale). Apparently this is an X bug, but it might be good to let people know. Users previously using xfstt will want to remove the 7101 server from their XF86Config-4. I think that to get the new path to work you not only need to modify FontPath in XF86Config.-4, but you need to add this path to the list in /etc/X11/fs/config for catalogue. In fact, if I understand correctly, the XF86Config-4 entry may be optional as long as you have something at 7100 for the font server. Since the server now has freetype built in, I'm not sure if running the font server separately has any value (at least for a local machine). Any clarification of that would be helpful. The whole X setup seems to have a lot of redundancy (e.g., *.dir and *.scale), which is asking for trouble. I don't know if there's anything you can say about it that would help, though. For some reason after I finished fooling around my xman reverted to a non-proportional font (maybe because I was finally getting the Courier font the app defaults called for). The thing that makes it strange is that when I first got xfstt working with XFree86 v 3, the manual pages went from non-propotional to proportional. Not only did it look better, but the default window was wide enough to hold the page width (a pet peeve of mine with xman on every system--Linux, Sun, HP--I've used). Anyway, it might be worth letting people know they can fool with such things in, e.g., /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman. When I configured NS (Mozilla, actually) as described in part 7 the choices actually appeared as Monotype-arial black. Do you want to make a recommendation for the serif fonts, e.g., monotype-times new roman? A couple lines on exactly how and when to restart the font server and the X server would be good. I was concerned doing so would kill my session, so I just logged out and then back in. I'm also not sure whether, e.g., /etc/init.d/xfs reload is adequate, or if restart is necessary. I've focussed on areas that were unclear to me, or where some more info might be helpful. I don't want to leave the wrong impression though: it's a very helpful guide. Thanks.
