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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with X11R4 Fonts
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Date: 14 Dec 90 14:36:07 GMT
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> I just finished installing X11R4 on my Sun386i at home and have been trying to
> get an xterm to use a different font.   I have used the "-fn" option with
> millions of different arguments as well as using xfontsel.  If I select a font
> such as Times, the spacing (of spaces) are WAY off.
> 
> So my question is:  How can I use different fonts in an xterm and have it
> 		    useable?

	Simple question. Simple answer.  You can only use *mono*-spaced fonts
	in your xterm.  Xterm is not "proportional-spaced-fonts" knowledgeable
	(no reason to be actually).

	Times is a proportional-spaced font face.  Try courier, lucidasanstypewriter,
	terminal-bold, any of the nXn "fonts" (eg, 8X13, 7X14), etc.

	If you really want to edit with all sorts of fonts, you'll have to
	get a third-party package like Framemaker.



	Frank G.

	BTW, Instead of a cmd line arg, you could set your xterm's font via a resource too:

	In some file (say ".Xdefaults")

		xterm*font:	8X13

	and "xrdb -load .Xdefaults" upon X startup.