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- From: shankar@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Shankar Unni)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't the hpterm have resizable text?
- Date: 13 Nov 1992 23:08:19 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Dave Waller (dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com) wrote:
-
- > You'll have to be a bit more specific, here. Do you mean changing the font
- > size in an active window, or do you mean resizing the window and having the
- > ececuting process know about it (SIGWINCH support)?
- >
- > The former is, of course, not possible on either an hpterm or an xterm, and
- > I haven't ever seen this feature on a competitors platform.
-
- Au contraire, if you do a "Ctrl-Btn3" in an Xterm, you'll get a "VT
- Fonts" menu, in which you can pick "Default", "Tiny", "Small",
- "Medium" or "Large" (the latter four are hard-wired, things like 4x6,
- 6x10, 8x13, and 9x15, I believe), while "Default" is whatever font you
- started up with.
-
- SGI's "xwsh" has even finer control over fonts. Btn3 brings up a
- pop-up with a "Font..." menu item, which brings up a dialog letting
- you choose fonts by Family name (adobe, lucidatypewriter, fixed, etc),
- Style (bold, medium, medium italic, medium semicondensed, and a whole
- host of others), and of course, Size (2 - 36 points), with a preview
- line showing you what the font looks like before you "Apply" it.
-
- All this in a running xterm / xwsh, mind you.
-
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- Shankar Unni E-Mail: shankar@sgi.com
- Silicon Graphics Inc. Phone: +1-415-390-2072
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