> Some programs chose the aliasmonotype fonts over the
> monotype fonts (I have no idea why) and their output was
> unreadable due to the font size.

Hmm, what programs do you use?
Maybe your question just the problem of xfontsel or KDE font selection.
In my case, the arphic-ttf also could not be displayed in xfontsel but
I could use them well in rxvt. (with fonts.alias file)

-rxg