Xref: utzoo unix-pc.general:1397 comp.sys.att:4271 Path: utzoo!edhnic!becker!ziebmef!ncrcan!lsuc!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdahl!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!gnosys!gst From: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att Subject: Changing fonts (was Re: multiple gettys, why use them?) Summary: an easy way to set fonts Keywords: fonts Message-ID: <62@gnosys.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 88 17:17:24 GMT References: <765@rush.cts.com> <631@bacchus.UUCP> Reply-To: gst@gnosys.UUCP (Gary S. Trujillo) Organization: gst's 3B1 - Somerville, Massachusetts Lines: 41 In article <631@bacchus.UUCP> darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein) writes: > ...My favorite use it to log in to one > wondow, set font slot 0 to my moria font (220x70?), go into another window, > start playing moria and dump the map on the previous screen so I can see the > whole thing. Rather obscure use, but it's nice... > ... > I don't like Office (UA) becuase the windows are big and clumsy, it takes up > lots of memory, slows the system to a screaching halt (I only have 1meg now), > and is in general a poor user interface. [oh no, now I've done it, millions > of UA fans after me :-]. Well, all this talk of changing fonts caused me to go back and RTFM a bit and try a few experiments. Though I did play with fonts one time, the thought of having to go through all that UA nonsense (I'm hardly a UA fan) dissuaded me from pursuing the matter too far. What I finally came up with was a few ksh aliases which allow one to change fonts from the current window - rather than having to do so from a different window or to fire up UA just for this one purpose: alias sffi='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/FANCY.I.E.12.A 0' alias sffr='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/FANCY.R.E.12.A 0' alias sfpi='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/PLAIN.I.E.12.A 0' alias sfpr='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/PLAIN.R.E.12.A 0' alias sfs='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/system.8.ft 0' alias sfsr='setf 0;setf /usr/lib/wfont/system.r.8.ft 0' (You'll have to look very closely to see the differences between the default system font and the plain Roman font - I think most characters in these two sets are actually identical.) Now if someone could only explain to me how I can get to a font loaded into slots 1-7 once they're loaded and/or the reason for the cautionary note on p. 4-60 of the Owner's Manual about using only slot zero, after just telling us that we have eight slots which may be used for new windows... Jim Rosenberg / Norman Yarvin are you out there?? -- Gary S. Trujillo {linus,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!gnosys!gst Somerville, Massachusetts {icus,ima,stech,wjh12}!gnosys!gst