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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: boldface in xterm?
Message-ID: <5122@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 21 Dec 89 16:23:13 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <8912202206.AA12193@Morgan.COM> jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
>Cliff Spencer <cspencer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> says:
>>I am unable to get bold fonts to work under xterm.
>Your termcap entry for xterm is hosed.
>Change the entry for so from \E[7m (inverse) to \E[5m (bold), or
>\E[4m for underscore (whoa!) ...

A nit:  \E[1m is bold.  \E[5m is actually blinking, ala
standard DEC terminal attributes, but someone decided that
xterms don't do blinking, so it gets crowbarred to bold so
that there's some sort of emphasis put on a thing that
should be blinking.

				--Blair
				  "\E[1;5mBlinking Bold.\E[m"