1NUCLEUS XFONTS 2-------------- 3 4This is a font package for X. It consists of mostly fixed width fonts 5that are supposed to be readable, including bold and italic 6versions. The reason to make new fonts is to enrich the very poor 7selection of fonts available in X. There are also a few floating around 8the Internet. The problem is that most of them are not very consistent 9and lack bold and italic versions. Before I began on this project the 10two fonts I used where Fixed and Neep (by Jimmy Knoble -- see 11ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS section for more info). Only two choices is too little 12when you spend much of your time in your favorite terminal or 13(X)Emacs. Why has nobody thought that it was worth spending time to 14comfort peoples eyes and make computer text easier to read? Does anyone 15care? 16 17For the list of all included fonts see "fonts" and "status" files. 18 19 20 21GAMOW 22----- 23 24This is the first font that was included in the package. It's purpose is 25to replace the Clean font, because it a better version of Clean. This is 26very important because Clean is the best font with some fatal 27drawbacks. The reason I made Gamow was the lack of ISO-8859-1 encoding 28and other characters that where present in Fixed and Neep. 29 30There are some other minor tweaks that make this font better than 31Clean. It has all four versions: normal, bold, italic and bold 32italic. This is unlike any fixed width font, because they are all 33readable! These four versions are pretty useful in editors like XEmacs. 34 35 36For more info on Mozilla fonts see "mozilla-scr/README". 37 38I haven't got around to write a detailed description of other fonts in 39the package. But I will... sometime. Sorry. 40 41 42 43SETUP 44----- 45 46 * Make sure you are super-user. 47 48 * Copy "nucleus" subdirectory to where your other X fonts are. On my 49 system it would be "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/nucleus" when I am done. 50 51 * Edit "/etc/X11/fs/config" to include this new font path (in the 52 catalogue section). 53 54 * Restart "xfs" by typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart" (if you have 55 RH6). 56 57 * To setup the new Mozilla fonts see "mozilla-src/README" for more 58 info. 59 60 61 62THINGS TO KNOW 63-------------- 64 65I (and the rest of the authors) made these fonts with XmBDFEditor 4.3 66that can be found at ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/. It is 67pretty easy to use. I encourage you to try it. 68 69You make fonts in BDF format, then convert them to PCF with 70"bdftopcf -o <output> <input>". You can gzip PCF files to save some 71space. Then you run "mkfontdir" in the directory your files are in. Then 72the fonts are ready and you only have to do what you were told to in the 73SETUP section. 74 75You can therefore edit others fonts if they are in BDF format. I have 76included BDF version of my fonts and you can find them in the "src" 77subdirectory. 78 79 80 81MAKE YOUR OWN FONTS 82------------------- 83 84If you feel like making a good readable font, please do not! Instead 85join my project, and unite member's abilities and talents. Then make a 86font. In a team we will make more and better fonts, faster! You should 87not start a similar project because good fonts should be in one place 88and not scattered across the Internet -- hard to find for normal users. 89 90 91 92HELP THE LINUX COMMUNITY 93------------------------ 94 95By joining my project, you will help the Linux community tremendously 96because of lack of good fonts! Do not be a fool by not contributing to 97such an important subject as fonts. This is not just one of many ways to 98make Linux more user-friendly, but also a way to make it more usable. 99 100 101 102ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 103---------------- 104 105I would like to thank Jimmy Knoble who inspired me with his 106jmk-x11-fonts <http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble> to begin designing fonts. 107 108Also, the author of XmBDFEditor. 109 110Thanks goes out to all the authors listed in "authors", myself included 111:) 112 113And of course people who sent me more or less useful feedback. 114 115 116 117AUTHOR (well, one of many) 118------ 119 120Hello, reader. I started this project. My name is Sergej Malinovski. You 121can contact me by email [sergej@nospam.dk] and you can visit my site at 122http://dreamer.nitro.dk, if you want to read some strange blather of a 123madman (mostly in Danish). I seek people who wants to take font making 124seriously and wants to join my struggle for a better World to live in. 125 126 127 128COPYRIGHT 129--------- 130 131Copyright (C) 2000 Nucleus. You make hack, copy and distribute anything 132you might find useful and not so useful under the terms of GPL (version 1332 or later).