[GOODIE] X11R6 BDF Fonts, round 1

Jay Carlson nop at nop.com
Tue Feb 1 12:32:50 UTC 2000


Attached is a changeset containing some of the X11R6 75dpi fonts, converted
from BDF format.  They haven't been tweaked yet.  They appear to be quite
license-clean. I think someone should stare at the Lucida copyright
information to confirm this.  In any case, they don't infect your image.

Thanks to Andrew Greenberg for a) pointing out that FontSets work and b)
providing text for reuse. :-)

By the way, if you want to ship FontSets through changesets, it looks like
the best thing to do is change FontSet class>>acceptsLoggingOfCompilation to
always return true while you're packaging.

"Change Set:  BDFFontSets-nop
Date:   31 January 2000
Author:   Jay Carlson

Squeak fonts converted from fonts in BDF format distributed with X11R6.3.

This fileIn installs several FontSets converted from some of the 75dpi
Bitmap Distribution Format fonts shipped with X11R6.3.  The fonts were
downloaded and converted to StrikeFont .sf2 format with the BDFFontReader
changeset.  Their copyright information is included in the class comment for
each FontSet.

On fileIn, the postscript installs these FontSets as Squeak TextStyles, and
thus may be selected by using control-K in any text window.

These fonts currently have an underbar instead of a left arrow for the _
character.  Also, this changeset only contains basal emphasis.  These X11
fonts were designed for use with hand-tuned bold and italic/oblique
companions (not included), so Squeak's automatically-derived bold and italic
attributes will not look good.  Bold emphasis looks somewhat better with the
application of the StrikeFontBoldFix changeset.
"

Jay
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