7.2 font listings

The font listings xwfont.list and psfont.list are used respectively by the X window and postscript graphics servers.
These files are intended as prototypes for customisation and can be freely copied, since they are looked for in the following order :

in the current working directory where the user is running XAS (any user can copy it here as a special dedicated setup)
in the user home directory (any user can copy it here as a personal private all-purpose setup)
in the local directory (the XAS installer can copy it here as a systemwide site-dependent customised setup)
in the include directory (this is the fallback version delivered with XAS)

Both files associate a font number (the only thing known to the graphics server) with a real font. They do it slightly differently :

for the X window server a real font is specified by the X (xlsfonts ?) descriptive string (inclusive of font face and size)
for the Postscript server one specifies separately a size in points and a font face name

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