Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:10:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts > > > and freetype fonts are

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts > > and freetype fonts are selected and rendered > >

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts > and freetype fonts are selected and rendered > (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFontTypes gives a > reasonable summation) but the main thing is

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Brendan O'Dea
There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts and freetype fonts are selected and rendered (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFontTypes gives a reasonable summation) but the main thing is that from the API level they are not interchangeable. XTerm has

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:32:21AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default > > > >

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Paul Fox
chris wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default > > > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible.

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default > > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible. Does > > anyone here have