Rob, Thanks much for writing this up.
One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use. I would love to see a trouble shooting section. I'm not sure what it would include, but perhaps use of strace or ldd to determine what font system the application is using. And then how to test various steps of the font selection and rendering process. (I suppose it would be helpful for me to see how to write a small application that selects fonts to understand that part of the font puzzle). As an example, sometimes mozilla's font display is rotten. I suspect what's happening is X is making a poor font substitution. I'd like to know how to debug the process from the font mozilla asks for (assuming from <font> or style sheet) and what font actually gets selected by the X server for display. Another example is I happen to like the font used for xterm. I don't use an .Xdefault setting for xterm. So if I wanted to use that font in gvim how would determine what font xterm is using? I don't really want to know how to do those specific things as much as know how to figure out how to do those things. ;) Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
