[Freeciv-Dev] Re: New city dialog

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:31:45PM +0000, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> 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
Not anymore. Due to this braindamaged decission that the Euro needs it's
own funny symbol we mostly use now ISO8859-15. At least this is true for
the newest Red Hat Linux versions, but I suppose SuSE does that too (you
need to do this if you still want to sell software in Germany).

> 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
Maybe no Courier ISO8859-15 font and it get's replaced with something
else instead of Courier ISO8859-1?


bye
        michael


> 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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