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Re: True Type font support - and a vmware note...



On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, mulix wrote:

> Under redhat 6.0 and above (IIRC) fonts are controlled by a dedicated
> font server. It's called xfs, and it's started by the boot scripts
> (/etc/rc.d). It reads by default the configuration file
> /etc/X11/fs/config.
> 
> You need to add a line to this config file that tells it where your new
> fonts are, and then do a 'kill -s SIGHUP xfs.pid' which should cause it
> to restart and reread it configuration file.
> 
> For more information, man xfs.

chkfontpath should do all that for you (it is part of RH's hack to xfs).

> 
> (P.S. I'm currently used the web1 fonts in netscape. In Hebrew, they're
> - acceptable, but in Engligh, they're ugly. Acy recommendations for
> better hebrew fonts?)

If you have a ttf font server - why not use some windows fonts (arial,
courier and times). They are good hebrews fonts.

Anyway - have a look at:
ftp://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/fonts/

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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