Added download locations for TrueType fonts and a note about editing font.alias file for i18n users, contributed by Alexander E. Patrakov.

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@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ who wrote what.</para>
<itemizedlist> <itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>October 10th, 2004 [igor]: Added download locations for
TrueType fonts and a note about editing font.alias file for i18n users,
contributed by Alexander E. Patrakov.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>October 10th, 2004 [igor]: Updated to <listitem><para>October 10th, 2004 [igor]: Updated to
Xorg-6.8.1.</para></listitem> Xorg-6.8.1.</para></listitem>

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@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ be completed to make the fonts available.</para>
<listitem><para>Establish a directory for the fonts and move any <listitem><para>Establish a directory for the fonts and move any
<application>TrueType</application> fonts you want into that directory.</para></listitem> <application>TrueType</application> fonts you want into that directory.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download the fonts.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Create the <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and <listitem><para>Create the <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and
<filename>fonts.dir</filename> files in the <filename>fonts.dir</filename> files in the
<application>TrueType</application> font <application>TrueType</application> font
@ -82,6 +84,16 @@ into that directory. If not, create a new directory, preferably in
the <filename class="directory">/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</filename> directory and put the <filename class="directory">/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/</filename> directory and put
your <application>TrueType</application> fonts there.</para></sect3> your <application>TrueType</application> fonts there.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>Download the fonts</title>
<para>There are two known high quality free font resources:
<ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/"/> and <ulink
url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/"/>. Copy the fonts (files with
the <filename>.ttf</filename> suffix) to the directory you've just
created.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Create <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and <sect3><title>Create <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and
<filename>fonts.dir</filename></title> <filename>fonts.dir</filename></title>
@ -164,6 +176,15 @@ between keyboard layouts and use the Scroll Lock <acronym>LED</acronym> to indic
the second layout is active.</para> the second layout is active.</para>
</sect2> </sect2>
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<sect2>
<title>Setting up fonts</title>
<para>For users not using the <acronym>ISO</acronym>-8859-1 locale, the
<filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias</filename> file must
be edited to ensure the fonts with the correct encoding are used for
"fixed", "variable", "10x20" and similar aliases.</para>
</sect2>
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<sect2> <sect2>
<title>Setting up XDM</title> <title>Setting up XDM</title>

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@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ things you may want to do are:</para>
You may want to put 100dpi fonts ahead of 75dpi fonts if your system normally You may want to put 100dpi fonts ahead of 75dpi fonts if your system normally
comes up closer to 100 dots per inch. You may want to remove some font comes up closer to 100 dots per inch. You may want to remove some font
directories completely.</para></listitem> directories completely.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Section "Module". If you are going to install NVidia
drivers remove the "dri" line.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sections "InputDevice". Specify the <listitem><para>Sections "InputDevice". Specify the
<parameter>Device</parameter> parameter to "/dev/input/mice" and <parameter>Device</parameter> parameter to "/dev/input/mice" and