jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski) (11/02/90)
I have my csh prompt set to a string which contains the escape sequences necessary to print the prompt in boldface. When I start up a new xterm, it's a little confused - the prompt takes up as much space as a bold version would, but it is in a thinner (non-bold) font than it should be. If I select "default" off of the xterm font menu, things appear as they should. Any idea why this would be? The only mention of fonts that should affect xterms from my resources file is "*font: *-courier-medium-r-*-12-*", and this is indeed the non-bold font that the Xterm is using. When I select "default" from the font menu, I believe that xterm is producing a bold version of this font by skewed overstriking. The question is why it doesn't do this initially. -- Jamie