Fonts question

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Joel Hammer spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> Anyway, my question is, what do the fonts.scale file and the fonts.dir file
> have in them? Do I need them if I install a new font? And if so, where are
> these arcane measurements found?

the .dir should state what fonts are in the dir and what they can be aliases 
for. the .scale shows what points are available. see mkfontdir and 
mkfontscale(?)

a quick www.google.com/linux?q=font.scale and q=font.dir should be very 
eye-opening
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