Re: Generic Unicode font handling

From: Nelson Minar (nelson@media.mit.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 17 1999 - 18:02:35 EST


>>Admittedly I haven't tried this, but 9pt sounds _exceptionally_
>>small. I don't even use it in English.
>You, most probably, use -*-12-120-75-75-*- fonts. Typical Sun
>displays are 90dpi, so 12 pixels = 12 * 75/90 = 10pt.

Ugh, specifying screen fonts is such a crock. For an example, see
  http://nelson.www.media.mit.edu/people/nelson/misc/x-web-fonts/

I think the only real solution is good scalable fonts combined with
the computer actually knowing your screen resolution and size. Windows
comes close to providing this, X is still behind. XFree86 is getting
better, TrueType support is becoming standard.

                                                  nelson@media.mit.edu
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