Re: an experiment with proportional-width fonts

Simon> Improvements on the font situation would be real nice, the Simon> defaults on my redhat linux box are very ugly. (Like, Simon> italic faces use much larger fonts than other faces.) This can often be fixed by using either point-size specifications or by eliminating one or the other of /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/{75,100}dpi from the fontpath. However, the problem here may be in your Linux distribution. Many Linux distros have fonts.alias files aliasing from 75dpi to 100dpi or vice versa, even using symlinks. I first saw the bug on a Red Hat Linux system, but it has since propagated to other Linux distros and perhaps upstream to XFree86. This makes point-size specs (used by XEmacs Customize) inappropriate. Debian (woody) doesn't seem to do this any more, but I don't know if they have gotten appropriate BDFs for all those formerly aliased fonts or rasterized them from outline fonts or what. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."