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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:44:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Dave Bodenstab <imdave@mcs.net>
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To: imdave@mcs.net, kline@thought.org
Subject: Re: Hershey fonts...
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> From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
>
>    Over the weekend, I installed the freefont package and configured
>    it into the X11R6 fonts directory.  It is hard to see what these
>    fonts look like with xfontsel because the font-name window runs
>    off my screen.

You might want to try this font browser; it does not have this problem:
  xfontbrowser-1.0 -- Simple Font Browser
    ftp://hpux.petech.ac.za/hpux/X11/Viewers/xfontbrowser-1.0/xfontbrowser-1.0-ss-10.10.tar.gz

I only made a couple of minor changes:

--- main.c	1993/10/26 13:57:23	1.0
+++ main.c	1997/10/27 19:34:27	1.0.1.1
@@ -36,13 +36,13 @@
     int nfonts, i;
     char *ff;
 
+    shell = XtAppInitialize(&app_context, "XFontbrowser", NULL, 0, 
+			    &argc, argv, NULL, NULL, 0);
     if(argc == 1) {
 	ff = "*";
     } else {
 	ff = argv[1];
     }
-    shell = XtAppInitialize(&app_context, "XFontbrowser", NULL, 0, 
-			    &argc, argv, NULL, NULL, 0);
     XtAppAddActions(app_context, actionTable, XtNumber(actionTable));
 
     form = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("form", formWidgetClass, shell, 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 		  (XtCallbackProc)ExitCB, NULL);
     filter = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("text", asciiTextWidgetClass, form,
 				     XtNeditType, XawtextEdit,
-				     XtNwidth, 200,
+				     XtNwidth, 350,
 				     XtNfromVert, paned,
 				     XtNfromHoriz, exitCMD,
 				     XtNstring, ff,

>    Does anyone know if there are Gothic type fonts
>    among the freefont package?

Which .gsf file in particular?  I've picked up a lot of type 1 fonts, but
I don't know enough about the terminology to interpret what you mean by
``Gothic type fonts''.  ``Old English'' style?  German?

>    Alternately, how can I take the
>    Hershey *gsf fonts and turn them into X-recognizable fonts?

Sorry.  Don't know of any way.

Dave Bodenstab
imdave@mcs.net