From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Visual font viewer
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:20:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60a89833a15dd9c8269e72841b9a8cd4@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180902271813w710d240ke2786e27395cd1dd@mail.gmail.com>
> err, by 'font files' i mean the files referenced by .font files, not
> the .font files themselves, which are just files containing font files
> :)
i believe the term of art is "subfont".
also "tweak" should be mentioned.
> One might make a script to create a troff file that includes some
> sample text for each font in /lib/font, and make a postscript out of
> it.
this will not work. screen fonts are
different from troff fonts.
> `page' on each subfont file seems like a lengthy task, unless there's
> some way to include it all in one view.
then write a small program to do this.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-28 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-28 2:06 John Barham
2009-02-28 2:08 ` erik quanstrom
2009-02-28 2:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28 2:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-02-28 2:20 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-02-28 3:02 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2009-02-28 3:13 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-30 9:05 ` frederic.bonfanti
2009-03-30 9:05 ` Frederic Bonfanti
2009-03-30 13:14 ` Joel C. Salomon
2009-03-30 14:05 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-01 13:53 ` Steve Simon
2009-03-02 10:22 ` roger peppe
2009-02-28 2:14 Akshat Kumar
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