joem@meaddata.com (Joe Mehrle) (10/31/90)
I have been trying with no success to create my own font which will basically display ASCII unprintable characters with their hexidecimal value, for example I want to represent the unprintable hex character "80" in the space that a normal single character would take with a bar above it. I have been able to easily do this in sunview using fontedit, but I can't do it in x with an xterm window. There is a program I got a hold of called xfed which allows you to edit a bdf font, but unprintables are not editable. I think I may be edit the source to correct this, but for some reason I am still having problems using bdftosnf. I change my fonts path correctly and I get it to run and create a snf font, but I get an X error when I try to bring up the xterm with the font I have created. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong ? Are there any editors in X, like sunview that will allow me to do what I want ? Can I directly edit a bdf file and if so how do I get an xterm to correctly pull up this new font ? Does anyone have the font I'm looking for already created ? ANy help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Joe Mehrle Mead Data Central, Dayton, Ohio Internet: joem@meaddata.com UUCP: !uunet!meaddata!joem