From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:18:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] nice appearance to Times font with accented characters (in acme)? From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 795ccc7a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > better than the default Lucida (there's no "bit" directory, so which > file actually defines the default euro.8.font plan9port-acme uses?), The default fonts are roro=; cd $PLAN9/src/cmd/acme roro=; g /lib/font acme.c:41: "/lib/font/bit/lucsans/euro.8.font", acme.c:42: "/lib/font/bit/lucm/unicode.9.font" roro=; As a compatibility hack, the plan9port graphics code knows to translate a path beginning with /lib/font/bit into one that begins $PLAN9/font. If you are using OS X, you can take advantage of the font server, which synthesizes Plan 9 font bitmaps using the native fonts. See http://swtch.com/~rsc/acme-font.html If you are using X11, you could do the same but first you'd have to implement the X11 support in $PLAN9/src/cmd/fontsrv. Russ