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From: etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Help with X11R4 Fonts
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Date: 14 Dec 90 19:12:33 GMT
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In article <9012141433.AA21913@islanders.>, fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes:
|> > 
|> > 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.

Think of how xterm is supposed to work.  All
characters are x-y addressable.  This is not possible
if the font is not of fixed width.
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					Eric Taylor
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