> -- Both are proportionally spaced, and your terminal program will > probably fail to deal well. My guess is that you get > intercharacter spacing equal to the widest character in the font > (more likely than not a capital M).
ahh, okay that makes sense. > -- You haven't specified bold/medium, which is a generally good > attribute to keep track of. can you point me at the docs for finding out how the various font attributes work? > If I were going to use Charter, I'd use a font descriptor that looked > more like -bitstream-charter-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 > (specify weight, point size, and character set). When I need small > readable terminal windows, though, I generally use one of the small > bitmapped fonts, either 5x7 or 5x8. how do i specify one of these fonts then? how do i find out what my options are? thanks for your reponse. adam.
