X Window System User's Guide for X11 R3 and R4 of the X Window System

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Release 3 and 4 Standard Fonts

This appendix shows the standard display fonts available in Release 4 of the MIT X distribution. The images contained in this appendix are window dumps created with our own program, called xshowfonts, the code for which is included.

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Release 3 and 4 Standard Fonts

This appendix includes pictures of some representative fonts from the standard X distribution in Releases 3 and 4. Not every font may be supported by particular server vendors, and some vendors may supplement the set.

The standard Release 3 and 4 fonts are stored in three directories:

Directory	Contents
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc	Six ftxed-width fonts (also available in Release 2), the cursor font, other miscellaneous fonts.
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi	Fixed- and variable-width fonts, 75 dots per inch.
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi	Fixed- and variable-width fonts, 100 dots per inch.

Tables E-1 through E-3 list the fonts in each of the three Release 4 font directories. Tables E-4 through E-6 list the fonts in each of the three Release 3 font directories. The first column lists the name of the ftle in which the font is stored (without the .snf extension); the second column lists the actual font name. See Chapter 5, Font Specification, for information about font naming conventions.

PICTURES of the different font families supplied in the MIT X11 distribution appear on subsequent pages. We show just the fonts in the 75dpi directory. The 100dpi directory contains the same fonts stored ...