Re: fonts

Thus said Chris Siebenmann on Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:08:30 -0400:

> You've been bitten by Ubuntu's switch  from a version of TCL/TK that's
> compiled to use old  X XLFD fonts to a version  that's compiled to use
> new XFT  fonts. The  simplest and  fastest fix is  to edit  the 'exmh'
> script to be run by /usr/bin/wish8.4; your fonts should then come back
> (assuming that your general X font configuration is intact).

I suspect that I also ran into this (although I was not using Ubuntu, so
perhaps the cause was not the same).  I changed Exmh to use tclsh8.4 and
the fonts were no longer unbearable.

To be fair, there were some fonts I did like with tclsh8.5 but they were
either too large or they rendered in a fuzzy manner:

http://w.bradfords.org:81/users/andy/tk8.5.png

vs

http://w.bradfords.org:81/users/andy/tk8.4.png

Andy
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