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Subject: Re: Ugly fonts...solution 
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From: Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>

>>>>> "jjn" == Joe Nuspl <nuspl@nvwls.cc.purdue.edu> writes:


    jjn> The past copy of weeks, people have been complaining about
    jjn> the fonts under X.  The solution...use PostScript fonts.
    jjn> Since the folks at adobe were generous enough to distribute
    jjn> the base fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol,
    jjn> Zapf-Dingbats), it would be a shame not to use them.

Do these really look good on your machine?  I've tried using PS fonts
with X for a long time.  The result is has always been disappointing,
at least on X11R6.1.  for example, the # character doesn't have
straight lines.  There's always a jagged line.  Many other things look
bad too.  In fact, I switched everything back to the standard X
bitmapped fonts.  If XEmacs wants to use blah-blah-weight-i-blah, I've
always changed it to blah-blah-weight-o-blah.  Looks MUCH better.

Ray

