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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > This X in BL3 is a whole lot easier to set up than the one in BL2 if you
> > want more than 640 resolution.
> 
> So this all refers to BL3 font tweaking, Sindi?  Maybe you could work it
> up into a how to?
> 
> Thanks, James

I already posted everything I just learned about console fonts in the 
previous email, except for different types of Russian (see below).


I was playing with console fonts in BL2, not BL3.  I have not
done much with X fonts.  I got three different Russian character sets
working with Bl2 (cp866 - Cyr/alt/ruscii, iso05 - iso8859-5, and koi8).
Cyr looks the best.  I set lynx and links to use those instead of 8859-1
as display character set (and also assumed character set but that is
optional)  and I could browse Russian sites by selecting cp866 or ibm866
links.  There are also Lat2 and iso02 fonts for E. Europe, and Hebrew, 
Greek, Armenian, and Arabic fonts, and some artistic but illegible Latin-1 
fonts.  8859-5 is pan-Cyrillic, the others just Russian.  cp1251 (not in 
my set) includes the Euro symbol.  All of them will work for Russian.

I will be happy to help you set up lynx to work in Russian if you can't 
figure it out.  Or Greek (iso07.f16 font).  R to L fonts might be tricky.

The iso05 font for SW7.1 is missing an 'e' and is also ugly.  We made a
nicer one for DOS, also made cp1251 screen font.  DOS fonts will work in
linux including a large set at simtel (fntcol16.zip).  Simtel has several 
font editors but we used one sent me by a unicode expert who was posting 
examples on the web.    We met because someone had given him some 
Russian which should have been corrected first.

I also used Kermit to telnet to another computer, term=linux, and could 
use lynx there in Russian. vt100 did not work in DOS, it had to be 200 or 
higher.  DOS kermit was a lot tricker to set up.  You had to give an extra 
command to set terminal character set transparent or the upper ascii 
characters would be interpreted as commands instead.  You can read about 
this at my site, where we posted the fonts we made.  
www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan, under software, I think.  vga screen fonts.
Our iso8859-5 looks a lot nicer than what came from SW71.

There are Cyrillic X fonts but I don't have them yet.
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Lynx that I posted needs lynx.ssl in order to display in colors.  I could 
not figure out how to unpackage my package and add the lynx.ssl at a 
Redhat computer.  If you want to post the little lynx2.8.1 package that I 
extracted from the larger SW3.5 package (and added two library files to, 
and instructions for use), please also repackage with lynx.lss.  I like 
mono but most people won't want mono.  lynx.lss is also in my web 
directory.  I could not figure out how to retrieve files from a 
subdirectory so left it all in the main directory (which you asked me not 
to do).  If you add it to the package please edit readme to tell people to 
put it in 
/usr/lib/lynx.lss

If this is too much work for you I will download and unpack and add and
repack and upload at 2.2K/sec or less.  

Description can be taken from the readme file, first part.