Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] only getting italic (right-slanted) fonts in most cases

[Seiichi S. <ss...@sh...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:02:30PM -0500,
 Christian Smyth wrote:

> I like mlterm very much, especially since it supports variable-width
> fonts.  I have a question, though.  I have a vaafont file that looks like
> this:
> 
> ISO8859_1=devon-iso8859-1
> 
> mlterm is reading the file OK, but seems to be using the font:
> 
> -*-devon-medium-i-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> 
> instead of:
> 
> -*-devon-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1

You cannot specify anti-aliased fonts in XLFD format.

> I assume it is picking the italic (i) font because i comes before r
> alphabetically.  There doesn't seem to be a place in the config anywhere
> to specify this "slant" attribute.  How do I make mlterm use the r font in
> this case?

In cases of *aafont, slant attribute is not supported.
The following way may help you. (replace "Arial" with "YOUR FONT")


vaafont:

ISO8859_1=Arial Italic-iso10646-1;


~/.fonts.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
	<match target="pattern">
		<test name="family">
			<string>Arial Italic</string>
		</test>
		<edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
			<string>Arial</string>
		</edit>
		<edit name="style" mode="prepend" binding="same">
			<string>Italic</string>
		</edit>
	</match>
</fontconfig>

--
Seiichi