cspencer@spdcc.COM (Cliff Spencer) (12/20/89)
I am unable to get bold fonts to work under xterm. I am specifying -fn <font> and -fb <font> args but boldface from nroff still comes out as underline. Since "nroff -man x | more" shows boldface under Sunview, I am assuming a similar effect can be achieved under X11R3, How do I do it? -cliff -- Cliff Spencer spdcc!lemming!cspencer lemming!cspencer@spdcc.com
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (12/20/89)
Getting boldface requires a change to the termcap entry that is shipped with most systems. I don't happen to have it handy at the moment, but will try to document it for R4.
jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (12/21/89)
Cliff Spencer <cspencer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> asks: I am unable to get bold fonts to work under xterm. Your termcap entry for xterm is hosed. Change the entry for so from \E[7m (inverse) to \E[5m (bold), or \E[4m for underscore (whoa!) ... /jordan
bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) (12/22/89)
In article <8912202206.AA12193@Morgan.COM> jordan@morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes: >Cliff Spencer <cspencer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> says: >>I am unable to get bold fonts to work under xterm. >Your termcap entry for xterm is hosed. >Change the entry for so from \E[7m (inverse) to \E[5m (bold), or >\E[4m for underscore (whoa!) ... A nit: \E[1m is bold. \E[5m is actually blinking, ala standard DEC terminal attributes, but someone decided that xterms don't do blinking, so it gets crowbarred to bold so that there's some sort of emphasis put on a thing that should be blinking. --Blair "\E[1;5mBlinking Bold.\E[m"