1# README: information about jmk-x11-fonts
2# created 1998-08-31 jmk
3# autodate: 1999-Aug-17 03:26
4
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6| Contents |
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8
9This file contains:
10
11 - Description
12 - Installing
13 - Notes
14 - History
15 - Acknowledgements
16 - Copying, Copyright, and Open Source
17 - Disclaimer
18
19+-------------+
20| Description |
21+-------------+
22
23These are character-cell fonts for use with the X Window System,
24created by Jim Knoble. The current list of fonts included in this
25package are:
26
27 Neep (formerly known as NouveauGothic)
28
29 A pleasantly legible variation on the standard fixed fonts that
30 accompany most distributions of the X Window System. Comes in both
31 normal and bold weights in small, medium, large, extra-large, and
32 huge sizes, as well as an extra-small size that only comes in
33 normal weight. Comes in the following encodings:
34
35 ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western European + Icelandic)
36 ISO-8859-2 (Latin2, Eastern European)
37 ISO-8859-9 (Latin5, Western European + Turkish)
38 ISO-8859-15 (Latin9, Western European + Euro Symbol)
39
40 Modd
41
42 A fixed-width font with sleek, contemporary styling. Normal and
43 bold weights in a 10-point (6x11) and a 12-point (6x13) size.
44 ISO-8859-1 encoding only.
45
46These fonts were created using the xmbdfed BDF font editor
47<ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/>.
48
49For more information about fonts and the X Window System, see the X(1)
50man page.
51
52+------------+
53| Installing |
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55
56To use these fonts, you need:
57
58 The X Window System
59
60To install these fonts, you need:
61
62 imake
63 make
64 bdftopcf
65 mkfontdir
66 gzip
67 tar
68
69Here's how:
70
71 (1) Unpack the tarball containing the jmk-x11-font sources and
72 change to the resulting directory. If you're reading this, you
73 already did that, or someone already did it for you.
74
75 (2) Create the Makefile from the Imakefile using imake:
76
77 xmkmf
78
79 (3) Compile the BDF fonts to PCF fonts and compress them:
80
81 make
82
83 If your X Window System supports it, the PCF fonts will be
84 compressed using compress (.Z) or gzip (.gz).
85
86 (3a) If you're upgrading from a prior release, move the old `jmk'
87 font directory out of the way before installing:
88
89 mv FONTDIR/jmk/ FONTDIR/jmk.old/
90
91 (where FONTDIR is the directory under which you installed the
92 prior release of these fonts).
93
94 (4) Install the resulting PCF fonts and the fonts.dir and
95 fonts.alias files:
96
97 make install
98
99 If you would rather install the fonts somewhere besides the
100 default location, FONTDIR/jmk/ (where FONTDIR is the root of
101 the directory hierarchy where the X Window System fonts are
102 installed), you can specify the place to install them on the
103 command line:
104
105 make install INSTALL_DIR='/insert/your/dir/here'
106
107 (5) Add the directory you installed the fonts into to your font
108 path. You can do this on the fly using (for example):
109
110 xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk
111
112 This adds the directory to the beginning of your font path. To
113 add the directory to the end of your font path, use:
114
115 xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/jmk
116
117 Remember to replace `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts' with the
118 directory where the X Window System fonts are stored on your
119 system (if in doubt, look in the Makefile generated by imake
120 for the value of the FONTDIR variable).
121
122 You can add one of the commands above to your ~/.xsession or
123 ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients startup file in order to use acces
124 the fonts in every X session.
125
126 (6) You can use the font aliases defined in the accompanying
127 fonts.alias file for easier specification of these fonts. For
128 example:
129
130 xterm -fn neep-12 -fb neep-bold-12
131
132 Variants of the Neep font are available which have an alternate
133 glyph for the ampersand (`&') character; this alternate
134 ampersand glyph is more traditionally shaped, and non-US users
135 may prefer it. The alternate fonts are named `Neep Alt'; they
136 have aliases beginning with `neep-alt'. For example:
137
138 rxvt -fn neep-alt-12 -fb neep-alt-bold-12
139
140+-------+
141| Notes |
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143
144I designed the Imakefile for X11R6.3. If you have a different version
145of X and the Imakefile doesn't work for you, let me know, and perhaps
146we can fix it.
147
148Yes, you really need imake. No, i'm not going to duplicate effort and
149maintain a Makefile in addition to an Imakefile. If you don't have
150imake on your system, but you have the X Window System, complain to
151your vendor. If you don't feel like complaining to your vendor,
152perhaps you feel like figuring out how to use bdftopcf and mkfontdir.
153They each have fine manual pages. If you don't have manual pages for
154them on your system, complain to your vendor loudly.
155
156+---------+
157| History |
158+---------+
159
160The Neep (formerly NouveauGothic) family of fonts started out with the
1616x13 fonts, because the only decent-looking character cell font that
162came with XFree86 was the 7x13 font, and i wanted a font that was
163smaller (to make better use of my limited screen real estate) and at
164the same time both legible and aesthetically pleasing. That soon led
165to the 6x11 fonts, which i made specifically for my laptop running
166Linux and XFree86 at 800x600. Then, since i had a small and medium
167font, large and extra-large ones soon followed to make a relatively
168full set.
169
170Since then, i've begun to learn more than i ever really meant to about
171the various ISO-8859 8-bit encodings. I'm all for Unicode myself.
172Just say `No' to characters less than 16 bits wide!
173
174+------------------+
175| Acknowledgements |
176+------------------+
177
178Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>, author of xmbdfed.
179Lorry Philipp, my 7th grade teacher, who taught me calligraphy and the
180 art of lettering.
181The many folks involved with the X Window System.
182The many folks who have sent me encouraging feedback.
183The many folks who have not sent me encouraging feedback but have slyly
184 let these fonts creep into screenshots and things and posted them
185 on the net and then waited for me to find them. :)
186
187+-------------------------------------+
188| Copying, Copyright, and Open Source |
189+-------------------------------------+
190
191These fonts are all copyright � 1998 Jim Knoble <jmknoble@pobox.com>.
192I have chosen to release them under the terms of the GNU General Public
193License (GPL) version 2.0, or, at your option, any later version. This
194means that you may freely modify and distribute these fonts, as long as
195you distribute the source code for the fonts as well. The full text of
196the GPL is available at <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> at the
197time of this writing.
198
199 NOTE: I am considering changing the licensing terms of these fonts to
200 be more liberal, using either a Perl-style Artistic License or
201 an MIT/X-Consortium/Open-Group-style license. If you have
202 something you'd like to say regarding the licensing terms,
203 please contact me at the email address at the bottom of this
204 file.
205
206This form of `free software' is known as Open Source software. See
207<http://www.opensource.org/> for more information.
208
209Some few parts of these fonts are derived from the 6x13 fixed font
210accompanying the XFree86-3.3.2 distribution of the X Window System.
211That font bears the notice `Public domain font; share and enjoy'.
212
213The vast majority of this set of fonts is original work. Besides the
214derivations noted above, any resemblance to other fonts, copyrighted or
215not, may be accounted for by standard letter shapes and the relatively
216coarse resolution (75dpi) for which the fonts were created.
217
218+------------+
219| Disclaimer |
220+------------+
221
222No warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including that of
223merchantibility or fitness for a particular purpose. If anything
224breaks, you get to keep both pieces. Your mileage may vary. Eat your
225vegetables.
226
227--
228Jim Knoble
229<jmknoble@pobox.com>
230http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/
231