I think I've just found an answer to this question by discovering the
"applesystemfonts" package. Also installed freetype hinting libraries,
MS core fonts, etc. Lots more choices now!

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, David Sewell wrote:

> Dear finks (so to speak),
>
> I've installed the Apple X11 beta following the instructions on Fink's
> webpage without any problem. (The only tweaking I had to do was, because
> I use the Bash shell, to make sure my .bashrc sourced /sw/bin/init.sh
> so that Fink programs and manpages would be in PATH for the xterm
> shell.)
>
> Although I previously had X11 installed, I preferred to work in
> Terminal.app because of font readability--I like to use an antialiased
> Monaco 15, which is easy on the eyes. I gather from running "xfontsel"
> that the Quartz integration of Apple's X11 doesn't extend to including
> the antialiased system fonts like Monaco. Right?
>
> If not, what's the best route for readable X11 terminal fonts? I have
> the Fink freetype2 and freetype2-shlib packages installed; do I need
> to install msttcorefonts and/or other font packages?
>
> (And if you have an xterm font set that you like, could you maybe share
> your VT100 font lines from your "XTerm" initialization file?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> DS
>
>

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