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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:31:51 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
Cc:        Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: banner(6)
Message-ID:  <20010416193151.U27477@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com>; from howardjp@well.com on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:28:52AM -0700
References:  <20010416191256.R27477@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161028290.23302-100000@well.com>

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James Howard said on Apr 16, 2001 at 10:28:52:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> > James Howard said on Apr 16, 2001 at 13:06:20:
> > > > He meant character sets =P
> > > 
> > > Can I get them anti-aliased?
> > 
> > Depends.  Fundamentally, these are not X11 (or ps or truetype) fonts; you
> > can use them on an ordinary text terminal.   But if you're running X,
> > and your X server supports it, you can get suitable fuzzy outlines
> > around the individual ASCII characters which comprise each letter of
> > this font....
> 
> Look, I was mocking the use of the word "font" to describe the letters :)

And I was mocking your implication that a "font" has to be something
the X server can render... :)

I could say "typeface" if that makes you feel better.  But the figlet
package itself calls them "fonts".

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