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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Subject: Re: italics in xterms - possibly a FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.065230.15913@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <smr.715427435@hitkw14>
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 06:52:30 GMT
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- In article <smr.715427435@hitkw14>, smr@hitkw14.pki-nbg.philips.de (S.Riehm) writes:
-
- > As a WISH, I would like to know if it is posible to get xterm to use
- > normal, bold and italicised fonts, and possibly even italicised bold!
-
- I don't know.
-
- > or perhaps there is another version of xterm running which handles
- > these extensions ( X11R5 perhaps?? we only have R4 )
-
- It's not xterm, but mterm does italics properly if you have an italic
- font available. (It uses XLFD names to try to find an appropriate
- italic font; if this won't work you'll have to tell it what name to
- use.) You will need to tell it to use ansi (or decansi) emulation.
-
- But note that this may not help, because the program that is doing the
- printing (probably "more" in the case of man) may be converting the
- italics to reverse video, in which case the terminal emulator has no
- way of knowing the difference.
-
- (mterm is up for anonymous ftp, larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1),
- cd /X/mterm.src, get mterm.README and read it. I can also mail it.)
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
-