Mike --

At 3:37 AM -0800 11/7/02, Michael Vanier wrote:
>  > From: cg at cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot)
>>  Date: 7 Nov 2002 09:19:52 +0100
>>
>>  John M McIntosh <johnmci at mac.com> said:
>>  >Fonts are a non-issue search on squeak and accufonts
>>  >
>>  Well, there's still the license referring to the fonts, even if you
>>  remove the fonts themselves :-).
>>
>>  (besides, I haven't had much luck with alternative fonts - either they don't
>>  look as good as the standard fonts or things like the left-arrow 
>>are missing).
>>
>
>If you convert the fonts to BDF you can hack in the left arrow yourself, as
>well as the up arrow.  That's what I did; I converted my favorite X fonts
>to BDF, used xmbdfed and it worked nicely.  Converting a font to BDF is
>pretty easy; Ian Piumarta posted a method recently.
>
>I'm not sure why the default font selection in squeak is so limited,
>though.

The vagaries of open source ... Lots of things get done when someone 
feels there is something missing. Care to put together a nice default 
font selection that have no strings (heh heh) attached?

>
>Mike


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