Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 10:04:01 CST
From: bobp AT hal DOT com (Bob Pendleton)
To: thinman AT netcom DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: grx fonts


>X11R5 has new proportional fonts and a builder.  It would
>be great if the builder (make font at size X) code was
>put into a library somewhere.  It gets annoying devoting
>vast amounts of disk space to fonts.  On my Unix box
>I have fixed-size fonts in 5 COUNTEM 5 different file formats.

Only 5? :-)

The font libraries in the X11R5 distribution are built as separate
libraries so that they can be linked into both the font server and the
X server. Nice separate source directories and everything.

Find the stuff you need under ../mit/fonts/lib/... 

			Have Fun

				Bob P.
 
P.S.

Porting X is my day job :-)