Re: stumped on xfonts-terminus

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

A reply to several people at once:

Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@vub.ac.be> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:16:24PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
>> But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small.  Can anyone
>> recommend any good fixed-width fonts which are available in 
>> large sizes?  (truetype/bitmap/whatever)  
>
> http://nova.bsuvc.bsu.edu/prn/monofont/ has reviews of several
> monospaced fonts. You'll probably find something to your liking
> there.

Thanks, that is an excellent resource.  There are some fonts out
there that I like, but now I'm having trouble getting xterm to
display them properly.

The biggest problem is the line spacing.  When I do:

  xterm -fa 'Andale Mono' -fs 12

I get a nice, anti-aliased font, but the lines are spaced way too
far apart.  Does this happen to others too?  I'm using xterm 4.1.0-16.

The second problem is than I can't get bold fonts with -fa.  If I do

xterm -fn '-monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1'

I get a bold font, but no antialiasing.  Does anyone know how to get
both?

Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net> writes:

> On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 17:16:24 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
>
>>But on a 14 inch 1600x1200 screen it's too small. 
>
> Gad! That print must be minuscule.  

The size depends on the font you use.  It's not miniscule at all
for me!  :-)

> You're trying to use a 160 pixel per
> inch resolution.

143, actually.  

> On that small monitor, you'll find it a lot easier to read if
> you make 1024x768 your max size.  

Why throw away resolution?  I'd rather have a crisper font.  I'm
using an LCD and don't want to waste pixels.  But since most bitmap
fonts don't come large enough, this means I have to use truetype
or type1.

Dave Thayer <dave@thayer-boyle.com> writes:

> Since you are running Hi-Res on a small screen make sure that you have
> your monitor's dpi or DisplaySize specified in XF86Config so that the
> font server can make sense of the pointsizes.

I put -dpi 143 on the X command line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.  How
do I check if this is working?

Thanks for all the help!

Dan


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