From: Pete Nush <pnush@voicenet.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 20:38:57 -0400
> In my experimenting with fonts under X, I've made some progress but I've
> got a question:  What is the naming convention used to associate various
> fonts and sizes?
> 
> For example, if I use the following in /app-defaults/Xterm:
> 
> *VT100*font:	5x7
> 
> and if I invoke an Xterm with the following option:
> 
> -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1'
> 
> will the 'fixed' font from the '/misc' directory be used with a 5x7 size?
> Or is something else entirely going on?

Er... man mkfontdir and/or xlsfonts?  For short, "5x7" is an alias for
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1", and
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1" has an
alias "6x10".

Further than this, I'd need my X manual from O'Reilly ;-)

ken