position-independent glyphs [was Re: arabic-linux]

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:59:41 +0200
  Chahine Hamila wrote:
>
> For example, Akka is already adapted for Farsi use, provided a keymap
> and a font is given (the default font, position-independent glyph, is a
> superset of ISO-8859-06 and a subset of Mac Arabic, which includes Farsi
> letters

Chahine, having looked at the "default" font for Akka (since you'd mentioned
you had these position-independent glyphs); is there anyway of getting these
fonts converted over to .pcf or .bdf -- .fnt is an old DOS format (from what
I read); the only tool that I've been able to find that would do anything
with it is 'fnt2bdf' which must be run under 'wine'.

Is there anyone out there that is running 'wine' (windows emulation under
linux) that might consider simply running,

  fnt2bdf chahine_fonts.fnt > new_fonts.bdf

If so, please let me know, I'll supply the .fnt file is you don't have it.

 - Nadim