Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:10:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts
> > > and freetype fonts are selected and rendered
> > > (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFontTypes gives a
> > > reasonable summation) but the main thing is that from the API level
> > > they are not interchangeable.  XTerm has specific code to handle
> > > rendering of fonts selected via -fn (server bitmap) vs -fa (client
> > > rendered scalable).  I don't believe that xvile has handling for the
> > > latter, so is limited to traditional server provided bitmap fonts.
> > 
> > agreed - the APIs are very different.  There was no _technical_ reason
> > that they had to be incompatible...
> > 
> > Having both in xterm makes it complicated.  If/when I find time to
> > do TrueType for xvile, it'll be one or the other at configure/make
> > time.
> > 
> That would be OK, what will distributions/repositories do though?

s/will/would/

(this is an item from a long to-do list)

Assuming that I had done the work, and it worked well enough,
I'd probably change the configure-default to the preferred version :-)

Most packagers would use whatever I set that to...

> 
> > However, I mostly use vile in xterm, and after _that_, winvile.
> > 
> I mostly use vile in a terminal, it's just that *occasionally* (such
> as marking rectangular areas with the mouse) xvile is very handy.

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