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Graham: re Linux font paths, that could be better solution than the 
current state. Though it is still not 'automatic' solution I can 
imagine that Linux users will be happier with that. I'll try to ask 
Carl what he thinks about it.

That sounds like a good idea to me too, so when a new distro comes 
along which locates fonts in a different location, then at least 
you can do something about it without having to wait for rebol to 
be updated. It will also require less code in rebol compared to a 
full automatic font finder.

no possibility of moving to the HTML5 Web Open Font Format? - then 
just use the same fonts in all OS?

correcting the agg bugs in r2 ? i would like antialiasing better 
fonts more readable less bug around the handling of font fixed etc... 
but as it just conserns my particalr and singular needs and as noone 
likes me i think i can forget it .... a bugfix to agg matrix  would 
be  nice too .. I know i'm such an egoistic being etc ...

unsigne char = font-fixed

Tonight's Moment of REBOL Zen:

Literal and Get Arguments in R2

see: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-9.html#section-3.2

These functions use Literal Arguments:


 ++ -- ? ?? cd default deflag-face first+ flag-face flag-face? for 
 forall foreach forskip help l ls map-each remove-each repeat secure 
 set-font set-para source

This function uses Get Argument:

	quote

It could be questioned, why functions like

	get set unset in catch throw checksum


, which all have arguments named WORD, don't use Literal Arguments?

Breakdown by reason:

- The word is pseudo-syntax for loop vars: FOR FORALL FOREACH FORSKIP 
MAP-EACH REMOVE-EACH REPEAT

- The function is pseudo-syntax for modifying operations on literal 
words as variables: ++ -- DEFAULT FIRST+

- Keyword arguments that aren't generally in expressions: DEFLAG-FACE 
FLAG-FACE FLAG-FACE? SECURE SET-FONT SET-PARA
- Interactive shell functions: CD LS ? ?? HELP SOURCE

I didn't realize that the word wrapping was something it did; I thought 
it was something *you* did in that message. So I put in my own line 
endings, which ended up in the wrong place because they word wrap 
at fixed indexes as if they weren't rendering with a proportional 
font. If they are word wrapping that way, they should use an editor 
with a fixed-length font and a margin line.

Hmm, form me the AltME large font swallowed the "refers to Red :)" 
remark.