gnome terminal does not use monospace and that's for sure. Monospace looks ugly. and you are right about that.
gollum On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 12:40, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:06, Gollum wrote: > > > > Hi I was messing around with fonts at xterm. then Something happened. I > > used akaash fonts. and I had changed the name of a file to bangala. and > > in xterm it showed the filename in bengali. I know there may be problems > > with rendering that but still it shows in bangala.What we need now is > > some way to improve the english glyphs in akaash. that would help a lot. > > gimli is that possible. I mean since it is english and I can read it. I > > could change the glyphs. but don't know how. can we copy the glyphs for > > the gnome standard font(whichever that is) into it.the the terminal > > would be cool. ls and you have filenames in bengali. maybe we could > > change ls the command itself to a bengali. does anyone know something > > about gnoterm. does it use pango to render it's fonts. I am finally > > figuring things out a bit. > > You need to set the font of gnoterm to Akaash > But, for the terminal, a Monospaced font is reqd. > It's a bad idea to make the English glyphs MonoSpaced - because they > will look absolutely terrible :D > However, the English glyphs that are present now do not look very good > either - so, i will change these > in fact, i will be making some *major* changes in the font this week - a > lot of extra glyphs - restructuring of the OT tables, etc > if everything goes ok - i will be releasing it within the next sunday (i > have my SAT II on saturday - so don't be much sure :) > > -iti- > sdg > > > ____________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' > in the subjectline and body. > Archive of this mailing list is available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/banglapenguin@;banglapenguin.org > -- n = ((n >> 1) & 0x55555555) | ((n << 1) & 0xaaaaaaaa); n = ((n >> 2) & 0x33333333) | ((n << 2) & 0xcccccccc); n = ((n >> 4) & 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n << 4) & 0xf0f0f0f0); n = ((n >> 8) & 0x00ff00ff) | ((n << 8) & 0xff00ff00); n = ((n >> 16) & 0x0000ffff) | ((n << 16) & 0xffff0000); -- C code which reverses the bits in a word. ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/banglapenguin@;banglapenguin.org
