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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 22 2011 - 01:31:07 CDT

Francesco,
  The variety of fonts available are related to what your X11 server
has installed. I think Tk just queries the X server to get the fonts
when it starts up. Have a look at this page for more info:
  http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/fonts.html

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 04:11:38PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> I would be grateful for any suggestion about which fonts in Linux X
> server (& gnome) are likely to provide clear cut characters in some
> difficult windows of paratool (those that are raised, for ex, by Edit
> > "Atom Properties" or "Atom types & VDW parameters"). I have managed
> with tkcon and selection of fonts without much success.
>
> Thanks
> francesco pietra 

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