[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Christian Knoke wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 16:07 schrieb Christian Knoke:
> > I've put them here:
> >
> > http://www.enter.de/~c.knoke/bugs/help.png
> > http://www.enter.de/~c.knoke/bugs/seropts.png

The monospace fonts are precisely for avoiding that ugly staircase effect 
you are experiencing.

> > > Secondly i would guess that
> > > SuSE doesn't come with the fonts i chose (Lucida IIRC). But it
> > > should come with Courier. And that is also a monospaced font.
> 
> I now have
> 
> style "help_text"
> {
>   font = "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"
> }
> 
> in
> 
> /home/chris/freeciv.rc
> 
> but it doesn't help.

Hmm... Odd. I know for a fact that Germany uses ISO8859-1 also so... maybe
SuSE doesn't come with that font size? That is strange since Courier
should be an Adobe Type 1 font. And outlined fonts can be any size. Could
you try seeing if those font styles and sizes are available on your system
using xfontsel or some similar utility? 

> Also, the FAQ http://www.freeciv.org/faq/#QA33 
> describes a command which doesn't work either (for me):
> 
> chris@max:~ > LANG= civclient -xrm "Freeciv*font: 8x16"
> Unrecognized option: "-xrm"
> chris@max:~ >

This is for the Xaw client. GTK+ doesn't use Xt for argument parsing or
resources. In fact, it doesn't use Xt at all.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa