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

[Chris Green]

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?

> 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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Chris Green