Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Apr 5, 9:21 am, Brett Stahlman <brettstahl...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I see that rxvt-unicode supports italic nicely. In fact, the Txtfmt
>> test page looks about as nice in a urxvt terminal as it does in the
>> GUI! I can't find any evidence thatxtermis intended to support
>> italic. Bold, underline, inverse, blink, and even hidden, but not
>> italic. Thextermman page describes an option that suggests it might
>> be possible to have underline displayed as italic, but I'm not sure
>> that would help even if it worked, since it would force you to choose
>> between underline and italic. Gnome-terminal supportsxtermcontrol
>
> gnome-terminal supports a subset of xterm's controls.
> xterm's controls include vt220 controls.
Ah yes. I see that now. I misread the gnome-terminal man page.
>
>> sequences in addition to some VT220 extensions. VT220 doesn't appear
>> to have added an italic attribute. So it appears to me that rxvt-
>> unicode is the best of the 3 cterms I have on my system (at least from
>> a Txtfmt perspective). Does anyone know of other color terminals that
>> support italic?
>
> They'll be rare. The escape sequence you're referring to
> was standardized in the early 1990s as a printer-specific control.
> Neither curses nor slang support printer-controls like that.
Thanks for the clarification. Unless I encounter some serious and
hitherto unnoticed limitations with urxvt, I may switch to it, as the
display looks very nice indeed.
Thanks,
Brett S.
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