Re: Font references and info

2003-07-25 Thread Aaron
On -4949-Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:40:55PM -0700, Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:20, Aaron wrote: > > > > I don't really care about bitmap fonts, but I am still very unclear > > how X11 is made aware of the availability of the FreeType fonts. > > Sorry for th

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-19 Thread Steven Yap
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:20, Aaron wrote: > > I don't really care about bitmap fonts, but I am still very unclear > how X11 is made aware of the availability of the FreeType fonts. Sorry for the rather long delay for this reply. Procastination is my weakness. :) I am assuming that you're using

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-11 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Steven Yap wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > > > cl

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 July 2003 05:06, Aaron wrote: > Just an update on this font thing... > And I don't mean not anti-aliased, I mean the characters are TRASHED. > Also, they are trashed the same way every time, like if you look at a > capital W in one place

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
Just an update on this font thing... First I found out that RedHat 7.x uses a hacked version of xft that includes TTF support from xfstt (yes, I use RedHat on one of my machines, forgive me). I finally did get TTF files to become available to X, and I can browse them in xfontsel, but they all look

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-10 Thread Aaron
On -3389-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:19PM -0700, Steven Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 20:34, Aaron wrote: > On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > > > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > > me

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
On -3359-Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:44:02PM +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > Yes, sorry... > > I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a > clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the > menus etc. that looks quite good, while

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide! > > > > > > Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-) > > > > > Actually, I'm the one who made a fool of myself. I messed with my vim > se

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread David Fokkema
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > On -3312-Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:27:42PM +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > > On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
> > Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide! > > > > Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-) > > Actually, I'm the one who made a fool of myself. I messed with my vim settings recently to get some cool comment formatting in PHP to work an

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-09 Thread Aaron
On -3312-Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:27:42PM +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > > On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > spake thus, > > > I've been trying to understand how fonts

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread David Fokkema
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > spake thus, > > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, > > and thought it might be useful > > to share some of the r

Re: Font references and info

2003-07-08 Thread Aaron
On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus, > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and > thought it might be useful > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think >

Font references and info

2003-07-07 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fi