

                       hrnet&hcr Greek X fonts

This is a complete set of Greek (ISO8859-7) fonts for X11 in bdf source
format. They were created by HR-Net (the Hellenic Resources Network,
http://www.hri.org/) with the invaluable help of Angelos Haritsis
(ah@doc.ic.ac.uk) and were based on the metafont code for Greek fonts
that is distributed with Moschovakis' greektex package.  

Two sets are available, for screen resolutions close to 75dpi and 100dpi,
including sizes from 8 pt to 36 pt for 100 dpi and from 10 pt to 48 pt 
for 75 dpi. The glyph quality is not the best for the smaller point sizes
because of the metafont's optimization for high-resolution characters
(although manual bitmap editing was done to improve legibility).

For each resolution there is a proportional family, called grtex, which
includes roman, italic, and their bold counterparts, and a single fixed
spacing set, called grtt (no bold or italics). Care was taken to conform
to the XLFD font naming specification so that many applications can
use these fonts appropriately.

These fonts are meant to be used for reading documents that require a
variety of sizes of uniform fonts sets, such as HTML documents read using
Mosaic, Netscape, etc. They are not appropriate for greek-window applications
such as rxvt, editors, xterm, etc. because of their variable width encoding.
For such applications the use of greekXfonts-misc is recommended (you can
find those at the HCR archive: ftp://dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/greek/fonts/X11)

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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It is best to convert these fonts to PCF format; use make with the
Makefile provided. It is possible to use BDF files directly at a 
performance cost. Read your X documentation and man pages and the X11
FAQ for details. Installation instructions can be found at the HR-Net
fonts site: http://www.hri.org/fonts/unix 

Briefly, the necessary steps are:

 1. Use mkfontdir to create a fonts.dir file in the fonts directory
 2. Inform your X server of the new fonts' path using xset fp+ <pathname>
 3. Update the X font database using xset fp rehash.

The above steps can be invoked automatically using the xinst_fonts script.
You can also include the <full-path>/xinst_fonts command in your X startup
files (.xinit, .xsession, or whatever)

If you are using Sun's OpenWindows the procedure is different and you
need to convert the BDF files to OW format with the command convertfont
and then use bldfamily instead of mkfontdir. (see your man pages for
details). You can then use xset as above.

RECOMMENDED USAGE
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Any program that can be set up to use ISO-8859-7 fonts (or understands
language encodings) can be configured to use these fonts; just select
hrnet&hcr foundry and grtex/grtt families. You may have to set a program's
Xresources by putting appropriate lines in your .Xdefaults file. Modifications
for Mosaic 2.6 are provided; note that the files are not the same for 100dpi
and 75dpi and that you need to invoke Mosaic with the command 
mosaic -name GRMosaic in order to activate the hrnet&hcr fonts.

Netscape 1.1 was not very flexible about font encoding  but could be called
with a global setting to use this font foundry for all documents. Use the
included Netscape1.1 script. Netscape 2.0 knows about languages and encodings,
so it can use different fonts on different screens. Unfortunately, ISO8859-7
is not among the accepted encodings, so an indirect solution must be used.
The fonts.alias file (included with the font files) creates aliases for
the hrnet&hcr fonts that make the fonts appear like central european
(encoding ISO8859-2). You can then use the included Netscape2.0 script to
change the menu selection names to "greek" and view greek pages by selecting
Greek from the Options/Language menu. 

*NOTE* If you do not use these fonts with Netscape 2.0, delete fonts.alias !!

See the HR-Net site for more details on using these fonts with Netscape.
http://www.hri.org/fonts/unix/. In that site you will also find some
trouble shooting information and, if all else fails, ask the HR-Net font
team for help.

COPYRIGHTS
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(c) 1995 Athanassios Protopapas and Angelos Haritsis

protopap@cog.brown.edu, ah@doc.ic.ac.uk

Based on the clr metafont code, (c) 1994 Y. N. Moschovakis
Based on the cm fonts, (c) Knuth, Levy, Haralambous, Sauter

These fonts may be distributed and used freely. If you make any changes
you MUST rename the files and include this notice. Contributions are 
welcome at the above e-mail addresses.

THIS PACKAGE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
