On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:50:13PM +0700, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> >>>>> 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
yes. (but you wanted to know how to override it - not simple since it
does try to find a matching bold font).
> 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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