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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:50:13PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> >>>>> 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

yes.  (but you wanted to know how to override it - not simple since it
does try to find a matching bold font).

> suitable bold font, but that its implemented glyph repertoire often is
> more deficient than that of the normal face.
> 
> -- 
> Sergei
> 
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