| Selecting fonts in WIDGET_TEXT [message #295] |
Tue, 25 February 1992 06:24 |
thompson
Messages: 584
Registered: August 1991
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A while back I complained about the fact that I couldn't pick a fixed-length
font that worked both on the Sun workstation and on VAX/VMS. In particular, it
was frustrating that one font on the Sun that seemed appropriate, i.e.
-dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1
appeared on the VAX as
-DEC-Terminal-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-C-8-ISO8859-1
where the case changed, and the -80- was replaced with -8-. However, I have
determined that the case doesn't matter on either machine, and that I can put a
wild card in to take care of the alternate forms. I.e., the font
-dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-8*-iso8859-1
works on both machines.
Does anybody know if this font is apt to be found on most off-the-shelf
X-windows displays? There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of overlap between
the fonts on the Sun and the fonts on the VAX, even when the different naming
conventions are taken into account.
Bill Thompson
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