Re: lynx-dev Fun with character attributes in xterm (was: UTF-8 display questions)

[Sergei Pokrovsky]

>>>>> Thomas E Dickey writes:

  Thomas> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
... 
  >> So it would still be useful to figure out how to make xterm use
  >> character from the non-bold font for 'bold'ing

  Thomas> XFree86 xterm checks if the given bold font has the same
  Thomas> size as the normal font, and rejects it if it doesn't match.
  Thomas> If there's no corresponding bold font, it simulates the bold
  Thomas> font via overstriking.  (It also tries to find a bold font
  Thomas> to match font2 - font6).

I suspect that is done on a wholesale basis, not at the level of
individual characters, right?  The problem is that there often _is_ a
suitable bold font, but that its implemented glyph repertoire often is
more deficient than that of the normal face.

-- 
Sergei

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