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Re: Working with fonts
- From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:52:22 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Working with fonts
- References: <571AA94E.1F9C0757.009DDB9E@netscape.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 laboiss1@netscape.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to setup my xterm with the -fn -fs option in order to
> increase the font size. I just can't figure out how and which fonts to
> select, and therefore it always defaults to "fixed". Does anybody have a
> font primer? I'm looking for things such as which directory to
> uncompress fonts, what names to use and how to link them?
-fn and -fs are unrelated.
-fn selects the "normal" font (the first entry of the control/right mouse
menu), while -fs selects a size for the font given by the -fa option.
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