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William Chia-Wei Cheng
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Tgif FAQ - Font Faces

Tgif.AdditionalFonts
If you want to use other fonts, you can add the following lines to your X resource file (this example adds ZapfChancery font for printing and uses lucida-*-*-normal on the screen):

Tgif.AdditionalFonts: \n\
lucida-medium-r-normal \n\
iso8859-1 \n\
ZapfChancery-MediumItalic \n\
\n\
lucida-bold-r-normal \n\
iso8859-1 \n\
ZapfChancery-MediumItalic \n\
\n\
lucida-medium-i-normal \n\
iso8859-1 \n\
ZapfChancery-MediumItalic \n\
\n\
lucida-bold-i-normal \n\
iso8859-1 \n\
ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
How to Create Shadow Effects?
There's no "shadow" style, you can do the following:

  1. Enter text mode and draw a string. Type <Cntrl>e to get out of text mode and into the select mode (the text will be selected).
  2. Turn snap on from the Layout Menu if you don't have it turned on already (typing <Meta><Cntrl>g toggles this setting).
  3. Duplicate the text by typing <Cntrl>d (or select Duplicate() from the Edit Menu). Move the new text to exactly overlap the original one by hitting the up-arrow key ane left-arrow key once.
  4. Select the desire color from the Color Menu.
  5. Turn snap off (or type <Meta><Cntrl>g).
  6. Move the text to the "shadow" position by hitting the right-arrow key twice and down-arrow key twice.
  7. Select Back() from the Arrange Menu (or type <Cntrl>b) to move the shadow behind the real text.
  8. Turn snap on (or type <Meta><Cntrl>g).