fonts and X11

[Frank Shute]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:10:48AM -0000, Moloney, Gerard wrote:
>
> Hi:
> 
> Is there a simple (i.e lazy person's) way of setting fonts for applications
> in X.
> 
> At the minute, I'm setting up each application individually which is
> tiresome.

.Xdefaults

eg:

XTerm*font:        -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1
GV*geometry: +240+10

You have to look through the manpages for your apps to see what
resources you can set eg: gv(1)

You need to reload the resources if you change them:

$ xrdb .Xdefaults

> 
> Basically, I am primarily using a laptop (800*600 resolution) to view
> postscript output from
> a music notation program, abcplus in Ghostview and some of the stave lines
> are somewhat fuzzy with the default.
> (Setting up the graphics and sound generally on a laptop can be a pain, but
> FreeBSD is a lot better than Linux in these areas)

This is a different issue and is dependent on the postscript your
app outputs. You'll have to look through your apps docs and see if
you can tune it. 

If you can't then you can grovel through the postscript and edit it if
you're brave.

BTW, you know that you can zoom in with gv?

> 
> I don't have any desktop installed and don't wish to have one due to memory
> constraints.
> 
> Has anyone any tips? Is there a variable that I can set to provide a
> default?
> 
> Cheers Ged Moloney.
> 
> P.S If anyone is looking for a brilliant and fully documented notation
> program, then ABCplus is just what you need.

I'm pretty sure there's a set of TeX/LaTeX macros for music notation.
It's likely that you can certainly tune the output of that.

A search of comp.text.tex should turn up something.

-- 

 Frank 

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