[H-GEN] Font Tomfoolery

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Christopher Biggs <chris at epipe.com.au> writes:

> 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.

That's a nice font, but you must have a kick-ass display resolution to
be able to work well in neep-18.  Maybe if I switched to
ratpoison...[1]

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

Thanks a bunch, Chris.  This has been the best suggestion yet.  (I
really would like to know why he chose JPEG as his preferred format
for screenshots, though, and I'm a little disappointed there aren't
more fonts available from him[2].  Ah well.)

[1] : What I *want* is to be able to run all my character-based apps
      in ratpoison or ion, and have the few graphical apps I run
      (mozilla, naturally, and the occasional abiword to fill out EO
      forms sent by various people as part of job applications)
      displayed in a more conventional window manager.  I could
      probably hack it up with Xnest but the whole idea makes my
      stomach churn.

      Do I have options?

[2] : For example the tilde isn't really in the right place for me; I
      like my Twiddles to sit just a little below the top of a
      lowercase "o" unless it would look *really* strange.  I seem to
      recall asking on this list about that at some point.
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