
GREEK FONTS FOR X11

Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Panagiotis Christias, <P.Christias@ntua.gr>,
all rights reserved.

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DESCRIPTION

  This archive contains a collection of Greek fonts (iso8859-7) suitable for
  use in the X Windows System. The fonts are encoded in Portable Compiled
  Format (*.pcf) and can be used with any typical X11 R5 or R6 X Server.

  The encoding of the is iso-8859-7 and the foundry name is "Greek". There
  are two families "Helvetica" and "Courier". The "Helvetica" can be used as
  variable width fonts and the "Courier" fixed width fonts. There is also a
  greek version of the typical "fixed" font of X11.

  There are fonts covering all the available faces (normal, bold, italic,
  bolditalic) and several sizes (8,10,12,14,17,18,24,36,48 and 64 pixel size).
  

COPYRIGHT

  Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
  documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided
  that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
  copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
  documentation.  This software is provided "as is" without express or
  implied warranty.


INSTALLATION

  These are the necessary steps you should take to install the new fonts:

  * Copy the *.pcf files from the "fonts" directory of the archive to a
    directory of your choice. This directory could be a system directory like
    "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" if you're installing the fonts as root, or a
    directory in your home like ".fonts" if you're installing the fonts as a
    simple user for personal use.

  * Run the "mkfontdir" command in the new directory. This command will create
    (or update if already exists) the "fonts.dir" file.

  * Add the directory to the font path of your X Server using the
    "xset fp+ /home/george/.fonts" command (assuming that the full path of
    your directory is that). If you're installing the fonts as a simple user
    remember to add the directory to the server's font path every time you
    start the X windows. You propably would like to add the above command in
    your X11 startup file (e.g. .xinitrc or .xsession).

  * Rehash if you are doing this for the first time using the "xset fp rehash"
    command. 

  To verify the correct installation of the new fonts you can use the
  "xlsfonts" command, e.g.:

      % xlsfonts | grep -i greek


USING THE FONTS WITH NETSCAPE

  These fonts where primarily created for use with WWW browsers such as
  Netscape, which need a lot of fonts in many styles and sizes. The archive
  contains two resource files for use with Netscape version 1.* and 2.*
  respectivily.

  Netscape version 1.* :
    Use the file "Netscape.v1". You should load the file every time you
    start the X windows using the "xrdb -merge Netscape.v1" command, or
    add the its contents in your default resource file (e.g. .Xdefaults).
    Then every time you launch netscape it will use the greek fonts by
    default.

  Netscape version 2.* :
    Use the file "Netscape.v2". You should load the file every time you
    start the X windows using the "xrdb -merge Netscape.v2" command, or
    add the its contents in your default resource file (e.g. .Xdefaults).
    Then when you run netscape use the "Fonts" panel in the "General
    Preferences" window of the "Options" menu to choose the "Helvetica(Greek)"
    for "Proportional Fonts" and "Courier(Greek)" "Fixed Fonts".

  If you like to install the resources as root to your system then you should
  copy the original "Netscape.Ad" file from the Netscape distribution to the
  appropriate "app-defaults" directory (e.g. /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults,
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults etc.) and
  then add/replace the extra resources from the "Netscape.v*" files.

  The archive also contains a html file called "alphabet.html" with the Greek
  alphabet for test purposes.


THE AUTHOR

  For any problems, comments or ideas contact the author:

    Panagiotis Christias
    P.Christias@ntua.gr
 
  The latest collection of fonts will be always available at:

    ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/fonts/X11
    ftp://ftp.softlab.ntua.gr/pub/grfonts/X11
    http://www.ntua.gr/~christia/greekfonts.html

