[H-GEN] Font Tomfoolery

[Christopher Biggs]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at panix.com> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Does anyone know the name or location of a sans-serif monospace or
> constant-width font (NOT proportional!) font suitable for use for
> everyday editing---say, as the main font for use in Emacs?

I use the "neep" fonts, which are a free, and pleasant looking, monospace
character cell font series.   I run pretty much all my xterms and
emacs windows with neep-18.

They're packaged for Debian as "xfonts-jmk".

| Description: James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X
|  These are character-cell fonts for use with the X Window System,
|  created by Jim Knoble.  The current list of fonts included in this
|  package are:
|  .
|     Neep (formerly known as NouveauGothic)
|  .
|         A pleasantly legible variation on the standard fixed fonts that
|         accompany most distributions of the X Window System.  Comes in
|         both normal and bold weights in small, medium, large,
|         extra-large, and huge sizes, as well as an extra-small size
|         that only comes in normal weight.  Both ISO-8859-1 and
|         ISO-8859-2 encodings are available.
|  .
|     Modd
|  .
|         A fixed-width font with sleek, contemporary styling.  Normal
|         and bold weights in a 12-point (6x13) size.  ISO-8859-1
|         encoding only.
| 


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