font question, xfs locally on cygwin?

[mathog]

On 19-Jan-2012 06:58, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 17/01/2012 19:58, mathog wrote:

>> This one works on the Mandriva X11 server
>>
>>  -*-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>>
>> but it doesn't work on the Cygwin X11 server.  The file name there 
>> must be
>>
>> -*-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-13
>> The problem seems to be that the font naming convention is slightly
>> different.  There
>> are 3 fields between 120 and iso8859 on the Mandriva machine, but 4 
>> on
>> Cygwin/X.  Change in
>> the font naming conventions between different Xorg versions???
>
> These names should be XLFDs (X logical font descriptions [1]).
>
> The first one doesn't look well-formed as it only has 13 fields.

Right.  Oddly it has been like that for, I don't know, 20 years?  
Searched for new fonts
and it came back with 13 fields.

Sent you a set of fonts.dir/fonts.scale for urw font names in a direct 
email.  (Didn't have
an actual fonts.alias, but should be easy to make one from these 
files.)

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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