fonts: what is a "point" in Linux/Gnome?

[Richmond Mathewson]

Now here's a thought:

On Mac there is a folder called .font in the user's Home folder (you 
cannot see it because the DOT
makes it invisible): RunRev DOES NOT see fonts there. Try it.

So it is probably rather daft to expect RunRev to see fonts in the same 
folder in Linux.

Something tells me that the font work for RunRev Linux is either:

1. Whatever is left over from the Linux version of Metacard: and Linux 
has changed quite a bit
      since then.

or

2. Based on the UNIXy bits of Mac OS X.

As Metacard 2.5 sees the same fonts as RunRev 4 (on Linux) I am plumping 
for #1 above.

What is interesting is that the Menubar for MC 2.5 (Linux) has larger, 
easier to read letters
that the MC 4 derived from RunRev 4 via Jacque's excellent build stack.

However in the folder /Library/Fonts inside the user's Home folder on a 
Mac RunRev CAN see
fonts.