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Re: Command to determine resolution



On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:38:21AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:

[Very informative font discussion snipped]

> What you probably actually want for "10-point Courier" is
> 
>         -*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
> 
> which will get you a monospaced font from some foundry named 'courier' 
> using the iso8859-1 encoding, at 10 points.  But it's unfortunately
> common among programs to either (a) record the full name of the font,
> including point size and DPI, so when you change server DPI the font
> doesn't follow, or (b) use legacy font names like '6x9', which refer
> to character-cell bitmap fonts exactly six pixels wide and nine tall.

Thanks.  This would explain my observations and is far more specific a
reason than the one I proposed.  A quick check with a netscape setting
in .Xresources shows that the -dpi setting is honoured for the menu
fonts when I put

Netscape*fontList:-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-0-0-*-*-iso8859-*

However, I had to have 0 for xres and yres rather than a * for this to
work.

Brian.
-- 
email: brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk



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