Changing fonts (was Re: monitor problems)

[Bill Carpenter]

In article <13523 at rphroy.UUCP> tkacik at rphroy.UUCP (Tom Tkacik) writes:

> I haved tried changing fonts, with little luck.
> I tried both setf and sfont, and once even got a new font to show up in
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to reliably change the current font in a window,
> and how to get the cursor to change size as well.


I assume you're talking about loading a font into slot 0 and not
having a font in any other slots.

1.  For some reason, you have to sometimes unload slot 0  first.  In
other words, to load fontXYZ in some particular window, do this:

	setf 0; setf fontXYZ 0

2.  Sometimes the alignment of things isn't too swift looking if the font
is a different size from the default.  For me, this usually clears up
if I go to another window and come back and/or do something that
clears the window and repaints it.

3.  The cursor size reflects the size of the largest font currently
loaded in a window.  Thus, if you just load something in slot 1 and
switch to it, the cursor will be appropriate for the large of slot 0
or slot 1.  (Another reason for unloading slot 0 first.)


My fiddling-with-fonts knowledge is limited to 3.51 and 3.51a.  I
don't know of any differences between these two nor in any earlier
stuff, but it wouldn't surprise me.  Like I said in the earlier
posting, it seems that font handling has a few rough edges left in it
(hence the warnings about using other than 9x12 sizes).
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