From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Alkoff Subject: Re: Font install manual Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:02:20 -0500 Message-ID: <464BB7AC.3070307@mindspring.com> References: <464BC6E2.9050905@earthlink.net> <464B9DDC.2030209@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <464B9DDC.2030209@pobox.com> Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Alain M." Cc: dosEmu-list 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 -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux