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10.3: Using the Monaco font in xterm post-upgrade
Authored by: zojas on Jan 30, '04 12:34:32PM

oddly enough, on my system, using 'xterm -fa monaco' results in a somewhat large but very nice looking fixed width font.

'xterm -fa MonacoCY' results in a font which is about the same size as Monaco but much thinner, and the hinting is so bad that the letter 's' looks like the middle has been cut out so it doesn't even look like an 's'; completely unusable.

what parameters do you use on xterm?

what are some other good fixed-width fonts?



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10.3: Using the Monaco font in xterm post-upgrade
Authored by: kps on Jan 30, '04 01:02:25PM
My all-time favourite fixed-width X11 fonts are Sun's "screen" and "serif" in their largest sizes, that is, -sun-screen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1 and -sun-serif-medium-r-normal-serif-16-160-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1. I'm not sure where to get these directly, but Sun does offer non-commercial-use Solaris for free, so there's probably a way to download them, if only as part of a larger package. Note that these are bitmap-only.

I've actually been using Terminal more often now, since I noticed that middle-click works as in X. My current favourite fixed-width scalable font, as far as on-screen legibility is concerned, is Bitstream's Prestige, which IIRC I got with some Corel thing a million years ago; there are other Prestiges out there - it was popular on typewriters - but they're too spindly.

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Bitstream Vera Fonts
Authored by: explosivo on Jan 30, '04 01:04:09PM
Check out the Bitstream Vera Fonts at:

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

I've been using them for a while now and they've really grown on me, plus they're open source. The Vera collection contains a great fixed width font and a nice sans-serif verdana-like font.

Rick

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