[Xastir] Labels in Tiger 2003 shape maps

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:

> I'm chiming in a few days late on this, but I just found that if I
> changed the "slant" from "o" (oblique, aka italics) to "r" (regular)
> the labels got a _lot_ more readable.  They're still pretty ugly
> rotated, but not as bad as the italics.
>
> I'll even go so far as to suggest that using "-r-"  instead of "-o-"
> would be a better default setting for the distribution.  I am currently
> using:
>
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_TINY:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_SMALL:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_MEDIUM:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_LARGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1
> MAPS_LABEL_FONT_HUGE:-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--24-*-*-*-*-*-
> iso8859-1
>
> These are what Tom suggested, but regular instead of italics.

I just changed them to 'r' instead of 'o', but didn't change
anything else at this point.  The font sizes are highly dependent on
your screen resolution and individual tastes.

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