On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:35:56PM EST, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:29:02 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > >> >> labelfont = '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-140-*' > > [...]
> > First of all, you need to know precisely what the above font name coding > > means. > [...] > > http://www.archive.org/details/xwindowsytemosf03querarch > > Thanks for the link, that's incredibly useful (although the PDF > doesn't render correctly in any of the five different PDF viewers > I tried, but I was able to read it). The O'Reilly X admin guide is also available at the same address and has a few more pieces of the puzzle. Should've mentioned that you should download the (much smaller) *.djvu files rather than the pdf's. Much smaller files, and render considerably faster. The ‘evince’ viewer on GNU/Linux appears to understand the djvu format. cj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
