			       greekXfonts-*.tgz

			   GREEK FONTS FOR X WINDOWS


This is a VERY rich collection of X11 Greek fonts.
There are two sets distributed:
 * greekXfonts-bdf.tgz   : all BDF fonts: 100dpi/75dpi/misc(fixed,etc)
 * greekXfonts-type1.tgz : Type1 (Postscript) fonts 

Files are archived with gnu tar and compressed with gzip.

For the first time you can get such a complete greek set under X windows!
Fonts for 75/100 dpi netscape/Mosaic use are available (complete set!) .
Misc fonts for use in rxvt/xterm/win-managers etc.
Type1 fonts with many many uses.

All fonts are provided in the ISO8859-7 (ELOT-928) standard encoding.
Some misc fonts are also provided in the codepage 737 encoding (traditional 
greek DOS encoding) which can be used (with rxvt) for typing 737 greek. 
ANY BDF fonts can be converted to the 737 equivalent with a utility also
provided (tools/bdfe2i).

NOTE that the use of the ISO8859-7 standard is strongly encouraged!

Some of these fonts were done from scratch, others converted from publicly
available sources. In fonts taken from other sources care was taken to
discard low quality ones, to enforce  proper XLFD naming and to
improve their design.

Some tools are also included. Most importantly you get tools to use
these fonts with Netscape and Mosaic under X. Install files:
grnetscape and grnetscape2 somehwere in your path for quickly
launching Netscape with hgreek fonts.

Please see the README.* files in each of the sub-directories for 
more information.

				  
				  INSTALLATION

You have many options to install these fonts. 

In all cases you will have to unarchive one (or both) files on a
directory (called SRC) with at least 8MB of disk space free. 


>>> Option 1
   Compile the fonts into pcf or pcf.Z first (for X). Then use the compiled
   fonts.

Step 1: Edit the top Makefile:
     - Change the TOPDIR to the directory where you would be installing font
       files to (make sure you have write permissions to that directory).
     - Change TARGET to either pcf or pcfz. The latter will also compress
       the compiled fonts (useful for some X installations where fonts can
       be kept compressed to save space).
     - Change B2POPTS according to your machine - read the comments in
       the Makefile.
     - Change DIRS to the font directories you like to install.

Step 2: Run make
     This should install the fonts to the destination directory (TOPDIR).

Step 3: Make your X server know about the presence of the new compiled fonts.
        Do ONE of the following:
     a. Update your X server's configuration file (for XFree this is usually
       /etc/XF86Config.  Go and add the new font paths in the "Files" Section.
       These should look like:
       FontPath    "TODPDIR/75dpi" OR "TODPDIR/100dpi"
       FontPath    "TODPDIR/misc"
       FontPath    "TODPDIR/Type1"
       (TOPDIR is the full path you have chosen before)
       THIS NEEDS YOU TO BE ROOT! But it will do a system-wide installation
       of fonts.
     b. Just run TOPDIR/xinst_top (you may have it run by your login
        initialisation files, eg. ~/.bashrc or ~/.cshrc)
     c. Use the X font server (xfs(1) or fs(1) to make your fonts available
        to anyone on the Internet! (well, it makes sense for a local net
	only - otherwise it is going to be rather slow). For each
	X server show them where to look for fonts via, eg:
	xset fp+ tcp/fs.x.org:7100

   OpenWindows compilations not supported yet - expected soon (someone
   with OpenWindows out there to contribute?).


>>> Option 2
   Use the BDF files directly with NO compilation. This is easy to do but
   Option 1 allows faster font display by X. So, Option 1 is recommended.

Step 1: make X know about your bdf/Type1 fonts.
   Just run SRC/xinst_top. This will make your fonts immediately usable.


>>> Option 3
  See 3c above. We will not cover more details about X font servers
  here. This is documented on X11 manuals.
   
A VERY common mistake is that people install fonts somewhere under a 
directory that the X server cannot access.  In many installations the X
server (what makes your X terminal display graphics) does NOT run on the
same machine as the one that has your home dir. Or it does not mount
home dirs at all (very reasonable). 

Under all cases, remember that the X server program has to be able to
access the directory where you install your fonts! If this is not
possible (or not even root can sort it out for you) your only option is
to make your fonts available via an X font server (Option 3).


=============== misc, Type1, tools ===============
Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk>

============= 75/100 dpi grtex/grtt fonts ==============
Thanassis Protopapas <protopap@cog.brown.edu>
Angelo Haritsis <ah@doc.ic.ac.uk>
