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Message from Steven
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Sindi wrote:
>
> I see two each cl, lut and helv fonts (.pcf.gz) 
> in BL3 in /misc, about 3K each

That's just about the smallest set of fonts you'll
find anywhere.

> Stripping these six fonts saves about 17K.

A tiny set of tiny fonts.  I'm trying to reduce
the X overhead as much as possible.  Remember
one of the goals of BL3 is to get a useable X
on a 486.

> But complicates life for people who want to read 
> French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or math 
> symbols in an rxvt. 

BL1 had keymapping and other foreign language support.
However, few people seemed to be using it, so I removed 
it (and the foreign language fonts) from the default BL3.  
Foreign-language users can add what they need (including 
full fonts) from Slackware.

> I think Opera has its own fonts.  Does Abiword also 
> use the X fonts?

AbiWord has its own fonts.
 
> Maybe you could post a package of the unstripped fonts 
> (for 8859-1) so other non-English-writing users could 
> easily add them without downloading a large Slackware 
> package first.

I expect most users will eventually install a full set 
of fonts from Slackware.  The default fonts in BL3 are
*very* minimalistic.  

> Type1 and 100dpi in BL3.50 each have a 34K .pfb 
> file.  BL2 does not seem to have any .pfb files.  
> What do they do?

It is a scaleable font.  It is used by jwm and magicpoint.
34kb is fairly small for a scaleable font.

Cheers,
Steven