>>>>> Thomas E Dickey writes:
Thomas> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Klaus Weide wrote:
...
>> So it would still be useful to figure out how to make xterm use
>> character from the non-bold font for 'bold'ing
Thomas> XFree86 xterm checks if the given bold font has the same
Thomas> size as the normal font, and rejects it if it doesn't match.
Thomas> If there's no corresponding bold font, it simulates the bold
Thomas> font via overstriking. (It also tries to find a bold font
Thomas> to match font2 - font6).
I suspect that is done on a wholesale basis, not at the level of
individual characters, right? The problem is that there often _is_ a
suitable bold font, but that its implemented glyph repertoire often is
more deficient than that of the normal face.
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Sergei
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