Re: [vile] vile-9.8h

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:37:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > In my terminal (not xterm) windows I get to use fonts like "DejaVu Sans
> > Mono" which are much, much easier on the eye than the Lucida Sans and
> > such available in xvile.  Basically I think my terminal allows me to use
> > truetype fonts whereas xvile doesn't.  I think xterm has the same
> > limitations as xvile.
> 
> sure - neither does fontsets (splicing together fonts at runtime).
> 
Yes, of course, that was the 'selling point' of trutype fonts originally
wasn't it?  You only needed to distrubute/install one file for a font
rather than the 'old' way of a file per font size.  Inevitably that
means that the application has to do more work by sizing the font
itself.

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Chris Green