Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:31:51 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: James Howard <howardjp@well.com> Cc: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) Message-ID: <20010416193151.U27477@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com>; from howardjp@well.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:28:52AM -0700 References: <20010416191256.R27477@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com>
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James Howard said on Apr 16, 2001 at 10:28:52: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > James Howard said on Apr 16, 2001 at 13:06:20: > > > > He meant character sets =P > > > > > > Can I get them anti-aliased? > > > > Depends. Fundamentally, these are not X11 (or ps or truetype) fonts; you > > can use them on an ordinary text terminal. But if you're running X, > > and your X server supports it, you can get suitable fuzzy outlines > > around the individual ASCII characters which comprise each letter of > > this font.... > > Look, I was mocking the use of the word "font" to describe the letters :) And I was mocking your implication that a "font" has to be something the X server can render... :) I could say "typeface" if that makes you feel better. But the figlet package itself calls them "fonts". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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