[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 17:31 schrieb Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa:
> 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?

Well, I've constructed that very font with xfontsel. I don't
know how to check the font availablility.

>
> > 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.

Then the FAQ should mention that.

> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa

Christian

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