On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:37:42PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >The actual font of the characters is beyond MC's control; it uses > >whatever font the terminal provides. But I think you are talking about > > That is not true. MC can turn on/off certain attributes of the screen - > one of the being the bold attribute. The terminal would draw characters > with the bold font instead of the normal one. Currently MC draws certain > parts of the screen with the bold attribute turned on and this is not > user configurable. A workaround would be to set the bold font of your > terminal to a normal font if it is possible.
I stand corrected. Though I think we were mostly saying the same thing. It's off topic, but would someone be willing to educate me? In printing, 'font' refers only to size; the style is called the 'typeface'. So you might have a Roman typeface in a 10-point font. A bold Roman typeface is in the same style but drawn with thicker lines. On a computer 'font' describes both the style and size. I suspect someone adopted the printers' term without quite understanding what it meant. Typographers complain about this misuse of their word, but they might as well get used to it. I use a simple terminal and I think of the terminal's bold attribute as being a color. Color isn't an attribute of a font, so I thought Caj was probably confusing 'bold font' with 'bright color'. Either that or the meaning of 'font' has been changed again. But I =think= what Pavel is saying is that some terminals (xterm or whatever Caj is using?) interpret the screen's bold attribute as an instruction to actually use a thicker font. That is, the screen attribute that Terminfo calls 'bold' is a high-level concept that is translated by each terminal into something that the terminal can provide, like a brighter white, a different color, or a thicker font. In that case MC cannot itself change a font, but it does set a flag that can sometimes result in a terminal using a different font. Have I got it right or am I still confused? Anton _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
