Re: Font install manual

[Larry Alkoff <labradley@mindspring.com>]

Alain M. wrote:
> 
> David Testardi escreveu:
>> If the DOS box were just a little bigger (i.e. bigger with clean fonts),
> 
> Would anyone be interested in writing a Font-Install-Manual for Dosemu?
> 
> I absolutely have no time to do it, but I have develloped a modus
> operandi to find the fonts of any size, any codepage (GPL) and convert
> and install them in X and KDE. I have the docs with very little
> explanation which I can translate to english (from portuguese) if
> nescessary, and answer questions...
> 
> It will need some trimming and testing but it is all there!!
> 
> I have seen in the recent past, many many questions about this topic,
> and maybe someone volunteers a a contributor, with my contribution in
> the background... Reasonable Linux konledge would be nescessary, just
> enough to edit scripts and undersand some comments
> 
> Alain
> 
>

I would be very interested in  a simple tutorial on how to install 
fonts.  My very recent thread "Howto specify a dosemu font' goes into my 
difficulties in getting this done.

I finally suceeded by using a combination of the following programs
but I don't really know what they do or what order to execute them in.
So the tools are there.

   I used some combination of:
mkfontdir - create an index of X font files in a directory
fc-cache -f -v
xset - set user preferences for X
    see xset fp rehash to reset the font paths to current value.

I'd be willing to help with your project.  I've used Linux for six+ 
years and have a fair familiarity with scripts and have written about a 
hundred for my own use.

Larry

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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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