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 that from the API level > they are not interchangeable. XTerm has specific code to handle > rendering of fonts selected via -fn (server bitmap) vs -fa (client > rendered scalable). I don't believe that xvile has handling for the > latter, so is limited to traditional server provided bitmap fonts.
agreed - the APIs are very different. There was no _technical_ reason that they had to be incompatible... Having both in xterm makes it complicated. If/when I find time to do TrueType for xvile, it'll be one or the other at configure/make time. However, I mostly use vile in xterm, and after _that_, winvile. I was just starting to review where I was with winvile in Windows 10, which had two gotchas that I want to have out of the way before making new installers. > On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 00:48, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible. > > > Does > > > > > > anyone here have any nice ones, or can anyone point me at some nice > > > > > > ones. > > > > > > > > > > There's two sets of fonts in the default menu for xvile. > > > > > The first looks like the bitmap fonts used for xterm, > > > > > while the other is b&h lucidatypewriter -- > > > > > > > > > > you might find this as > > > > > bitmap-lucida-typewriter-fonts > > > > > or > > > > > xfonts-100dpi > > > > > xfonts-75dpi > > > > > > > > > Yes, I have all of those, I was just hoping/wondering if anyone has > > > > created different/better bitmap fonts. They're OK[ish] on my desktop > > > > machine but I can't find anything that is really comfortable to use on > > > > my laptop. > > > > > > I haven't thought about fonts in a long time. Is it the case that > > > xvile can't use the same fonts that xterm uses? I don't use xvile, > > > but I'm pretty happy with my fixed xterm fonts. > > > > > xvile is stuck with the old and rarely renewed/maintained fixed bitmap > > fonts in /etc/X11/fonts whereas vile can use all of the standard > > terminal fonts to be found in /usr/share/fonts. I'm not sure if xterm > > can use the 'ordinary' system fonts in the same way that other > > terminal emulators can, I use the default xfce4-terminal that comes > > with the xubuntu distribution that I use and that shows me dozens (if > > not hundreds) of different fonts to choose from. > > > > -- > > Chris Green > > > -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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