On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 03:29:57PM +0100, Franco Martelli wrote: > On 26/01/24 at 20:50, David Wright wrote: > > I'll give a shout-out for Hack,¹ which I can't fault for use in > > xterms. Comparing xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa hack -fs 16 > > with xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 -fa inconsolata -fs 18 > > (to make the sizes roughly the same), I find the inconsolata > > stroke width on the basic Roman alphabet is a little spindly. > > > > Other criticisms are that the stroke widths (and even the size) > > later in the table (eg 0x256–1312) are thicker or larger, and > > many single-width characters are slightly oversize and get > > truncated at the top & right (eg Ŵ at 0x372, Lj 456). Mixing > > fractions is ugly, too: ½ ⅓ ⅔ ¼ ¾ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞. The ‘’ quotes > > are pretty, though. > > Those symbols are very nice, which tool have you used to insert them? I'm > using Thunderbird for my emails but I've to enable "Compose message in HTML" > to have a small subset of symbols, for me isn't enough. I'm using KDE > desktop.
Easy. I configured my CAPSLOCK key (which is useless IMO) to be my X compose key. So entering COMPOSE-4-5 does ⅘, and COMPOSE-<-3 does ♥. You can even define your own compose seqs, like I did with ♀ (COMPOSE-o-+) and others. The nice part is that it works for /all/ X11 applications, even in a plain old xterm (I'm writing this mail in vim in an xterm). Cheers -- t
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