Re: font questions

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From: Bob Scheifler
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 15:50

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    Well, I'm ready to unleash X11R4 on my user community, but I know they
    are going to scream bloody murder when they find that all their .scf
    fonts are gone.  Is this truly the case, or have I missed something?

Sorry, I don't know what a ".scf font" is.

    X11R4 seems to be long on "serious" fonts and short on "fun" fonts.
    Is this an accurate impression?

If you mean short on those ugly X10 fonts of yore, simply retain them from
your current systems.

    Is there some reason that the .alias files don't contain aliases
    for a lot of the fonts?

Aliases in the core distribution mainly exist for backward compatibility,
retaining old-style (e.g. "9x15") names for some common fonts.  In general
we have tried to move uniformly to XLFD names.  I don't see the need for
a slew of aliases; perhaps you could enlighten me.

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