Re: How to get a list of fixed-width fonts?

In article <1ibkmwp.ip80erqd3h5iN%hylton.boothroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hylton Boothroyd <hylton.boothroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jolly Roger wrote:
sbt wrote:
Jolly Roger wrote:
3. Open a terminal window and enter this command:

That's what I did.

If you executed the 'fontforge' command in a terminal window

No, I did not "miss" step 3 -- I typed "fontforge" in the Terminal
window presented by the installer

I saw no such instructions or automatically-opened terminal window.

Conjecture: sbt has never seen a "terminal window"

Comment for sbt:
A "terminal window" has nothing to do with what an installer does.

When you need a "terminal window" you
- launch it by double clicking on Applications:Utilities:Terminal
- see a modest size window with text like
Last login: Thu Jan 31 08:00:27 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
sbts-computer:~ sbt$ *
where I've put an asterisk in the place of the text cursor,
which is the only place you can do anything in the window,
and even then only through the keyboard.

The window comes from the days of computing before the window, the
mouse, and the click - actually from the early days of unix mainframes.
It represents the entire screen that you had when all that could be
shown was 24 lines each of 80 characters.

It looks basic, and it is. These days on OS X, it's how you get right
down deep into the engine room behind all the graphic user interfaces.
It's basic. It's powerful. It's a place where you can play havoc if you
type the wrong things!

So to see it in action
- press return (a new line is printed and the system waits)
- type the word exit

I downloaded FontForge_macX.5_ppc-py25-20080109.pkg and the included
installer opens a xterm.

and, I know what a Terminal window is. I've been using Unix for over 25
years, although I haven't delved into the various windowing packages
other than a little experimentation with X back in the early 90s on a
Sun workstation (when X was still relatively new). My first Unix system
was a Wicat, back in 1982, at JPL.

(the terminal session is ended and you can safely close the window)

--
Spenser
.

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