Re: fonts in *terms ...

[Adam Shand <larry@alaska.net>]

> -- Both are proportionally spaced, and your terminal program will
>    probably fail to deal well.  My guess is that you get
>    intercharacter spacing equal to the widest character in the font
>    (more likely than not a capital M).

ahh, okay that makes sense.

> -- You haven't specified bold/medium, which is a generally good
>    attribute to keep track of.

can you point me at the docs for finding out how the various font attributes
work?

> If I were going to use Charter, I'd use a font descriptor that looked
> more like -bitstream-charter-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> (specify weight, point size, and character set).  When I need small
> readable terminal windows, though, I generally use one of the small
> bitmapped fonts, either 5x7 or 5x8.

how do i specify one of these fonts then?  how do i find out what my options
are?

thanks for your reponse.

adam.