On 28Mar2007 02:14, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | > [I] routinely worked in a teensie tiny font which got | > plenty of code on the screen and was still perfectly legible. | > | > I obtained this font by choosing "Monospace" and "10" in the "Font" | > setting on the Edit->Current_Profile->General tab, the typing | > Ctrl-minus twice to get down to something I liked. | > | > I have failed utterly to identify that font so that I can ask | > another terminal to use it:-( [...] | | I believe you can see what font would be used via the fc-match | command. On my FC6 box, here's what I get when asking about | Monospace: | | $ fc-match "Monospace" | DejaVuLGCSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu LGC Sans Mono" "Book" | | Does rxvt use fontconfig? If so, I'd have thought that specifying | Monospace 10 would get you what you want. But I'm sure you likely | figured that too and found out through experimentation that it | doesn't. :) Ah, but I don't want Monospace 10, I seem to want Monospace 6. Here's the gnome-terminal: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/test/gt1.png The bold's a bit garish, but the normal font is good; that's after the ctrl-minus. Now, to preface the following with why I didn't just use Monospace-6, saying "urxvt -fn xft:Monospace-6" got me this: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/test/urxvt0.png And so I took the low road. Anyway, you have helped. I spent a hour last night using fc-list and fc-match and playing with fonts; I'd bring up gnome-terminal and its font chooser, which has a handy preview (but limited size choices and nothing for the other weird attributes) to check out the font face appearance. And then I'd check what fc-match and fc-list said for various things like "Console-8:spacing-charcell:antialias=false" and so forth. And try: urxvt -fn xft:Console-8:spacing-charcell:antialias=false Clearly I was tired and my blood sugar low, but your email had just arrived so I thought I'd have at it. And it was opportune. This doco was also (slightly) useful: http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html I evenually ended up with "xft:DejaVuLGCSansMono-6". It looked like this: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/test/urxvt1.png It's readable, but simply not as good as the gnome-terminal. Anyway, I ran with that and recongiured my FVWM setup and terminal defaults and am today working with 4 80-column terminals side by side on my main 1600x1200 monitor. This morning, with coffee and a choc wheaton biscuit in my system, I realised that I had ignored urxvt (and rxvt and xterm)'s "bold font" setting. Saying: urxvt -fn xft:Monospace-6 -fb xft:Monospace-6 gets me this: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/test/urxvt2.png I think it's better, though on close inspection I'm less sure. it may be identical to the gnome-terminal, and what I ended with last night. I still reckon this is a great step forward from the 6x10 fixed font I've been using. We'll see. Thanks. Hope y'all like the sig quote:-) Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ in rec.moto, jsh wrote: > Dan Nitschke wrote: > > Ged Martin wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 May 1997 16:53:33 +0000, Dan Nitschke scribbled: > > > >(And you stay *out* of my dreams, you deviant little > > > >weirdo.) > > > Yeah, yeah, that's what you're saying in _public_.... > > Feh. You know nothing of my dreams. I dream entirely in text (New Century > > Schoolbook bold oblique 14 point), and never in color. I once dreamed I > > was walking down a flowchart of my own code, and a waterfall of semicolons > > was chasing me. (I hid behind a global variable until they went by.) > You write code in a proportional serif? No wonder you got extra > semicolons falling all over the place. No, I *dream* about writing code in a proportional serif font. It's much more exciting than my real life. /* dan: THE Anti-Ged -- Ignorant Yank (tm) #1, none-%er #7 */ Dan Nitschke peDANtic@xxxxxxxx nitschke@xxxxxxxxxxxx
