Karl> Might this be useful? No. It belongs in the X server if it belongs anywhere at all. I've found it to be more trouble than it's worth; I do use Ghostscript linked with it because Japanese has more font description formats than it has fonts. But at screen resolutions it doesn't usually help that much; the hand-tuned bitmaps are much more readable. -- 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."