Re: [vile] A question about fonts in xvile

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Chris G wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:58:28AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > Now that I'm using xvile mostly on modern Linux systems I'm wondering
> > > if I can use some better to look at fonts.
> > >
> > > What showed this up was the default gnome-terminal on Fedora 7 which
> > > uses the "system fixed width font" as its default font and I have to
> > > say it looks much better than what I'm using in xvile (and rxvt for
> > > that matter).
> > >
> > > So, is there anyy way I can get the saem selection of fonts in xvile
> > > that I see in gnome-terminal (and firefox, and other applications)?
> > > If so, how do I do it?
> >
> > probably not - I expect they're using truetype fonts, which will require
> > a code-change to allow xvile to use them.  xterm does that...
> You're right, the fonts I like in gnome-terminal are truetype ones.
>
> How big is the code change required to allow xvile to use them?  I
> might be interested into digging into that, it would be fairly
> isolated from other changes going on I guess.

My ongoing changes are in ftp://invisible-island.net/temp,
and for x11.c are mostly a matter of reorganizing code to
handle the 8- and 16-bit calls for drawing text.

Look in xterm's source at util.c, as called from drawXtermText(). Most of 
that is in the OPT_RENDERFONT ifdefs. It's not _small_, but could be 
isolated into code that's called from one point...

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Thomas E. Dickey
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