Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] how to use fonts

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

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 01:09:29AM +0200,
 Nuno Alexandre wrote:

> > if -lfp-smooth-* is a scalable font:
> > 
> > ISO8859_1=-lfp-smooth-*-*-%d-*-iso8859-1;
> > 
> > if not:
> > 
> > ISO8859_1=16,-lfp-smooth-*-*-16-*-iso8859-1;12,-ANOTHER-FONT-*-*-12-*-iso8859-1;10,ALIASED_NAME_5x10;
> > (replace 16 to font size of -lfp-smooth-*)
> Hi Seiichi,
> I've added the exact same line you wrote, and the font its still the default,
> meaning its not the lfp-smooth.


I installed the lfpfont-fix as a trial.
(http://dreamer.nitro.dk/typography/bitmap-fonts.html)

fonts.dir of lfpfont-fix said:

smooth-09-m-r-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -lfp-smooth-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-c-60-iso8
859-1

I added the following line to ~/.mlterm/font:

ISO8859_1 = 9,-lfp-smooth-medium-r-normal--9-*-iso8859-1;

and run mlterm with fontsize option.

$ mlterm --fontsize=9

It seems to work fine.

> lfp its not scalable, I don't use AA fonts on terminals.
> I would like to know if there are other ways to change fonts, specially
> something more simple, like adding the name of the font in some start paramenter
> or config file.

There is no way, except for ~/.mlterm/*font. Personally I think
-fn option like rxvt is unsuitable for specifying X core font
using XLFD format per charset and per size.

-- 
Seiichi