Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Difficulty changing the font in mlterm [solved]

[John M. <lis...@b7...>]

Hi,

* Araki Ken <ara...@us...> [120509 19:16]:
> > I'm having trouble changing the font in mlterm. My goal is to display
> > UTF-8 files using Gentium, a variable width font.
> > 
> > After starting mlterm with `mlterm -A -V`, I brought up the mlterm
> > configuration panel, selected "Gentium 24" from the pull-down menu,
> > and checked the "Variable column width" option. I do see a line has
> > been added to ~./mlterm/vaafont
> > 
> >     DEFAULT = 24,Gentium 24
> > 
> > But mlterm does not display the Gentium font...it just keeps displaying
> > the same monospace font (looks like DejaVu Sans Mono) no matter what
> > font is selected.
> 
>  Will you show me your ~/.mlterm/main, ~/.mlterm/aafont and
>  ~/.mlterm/vaafont? I'm sorry but procedure of font setting is somewhat
>  complicated. Variable width unicode font is searched as follows.

All these are mostly as copied from /etc: `cp /etc/mlterm/* ~/.mlterm/`
(with the addition of the font callout for Gentium).

>  If you specify ~/.mlterm/main and ~/.mlterm/vaafont as follows
> or remove ~/.mlterm/aafont, I think you can certainly display Gentium font.
> 
> ~/.mlterm/main
> fontsize = 24
> 
> ~/.mlterm/vaafont
> DEFAULT = 24,Gentium 24
> ISO10646_UCS4_1 = 24,Gentium 24

Yes, this did it. It was necessary to specify fontsize in
~/.mlterm/main as well as those two lines in ~/.mlterm/vaafont
(I was missing the "ISO10646_UCS4_1 = 24,Gentium 24" line).
Now Gentium displays properly as a variable width font when
started with `mlterm -A`

Thanks for your help,

John

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