Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU!mouse
From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Font Editor
Message-ID: <9012041036.AA29042@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 4 Dec 90 10:36:55 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 23

> I am looking for a font editor.

> What I would like to do is be able to print the line segment and
> corner glyphs availible in the fixed font in a xterm.  But when I
> send the ascii value to a xterm they are interpeted as controls to
> the xterm.

You are trying to solve the wrong problem.  You don't need a font
editor at all.

xterm emulates a VT100-ish thing.  In particular, if you send the VT100
"shift to line-drawing graphics" sequence (ESC ( 0, I believe it is),
lowercase letters come out as graphics symbols.  In particular, letters
j through x are the line-drawing characters.  (To shift back, ESC ( B
works, or if you're in the UK you probably want ESC ( A instead.  (The
difference is whether character 0x23 is an octothorpe or pound sign.))

No font editor needed.

					der Mouse

			old: mcgill-vision!mouse
			new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu