Re: Fonts (Was: CVS commit: xsrc/external/mit)

nia <[email protected]> Sun, 8 May 2022 10:29:48 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.x11
Message-ID	<YnebnD8I/[email protected]>

On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 01:26:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> Why kill bold/italic formatting that is very useful for visual
> presentation?  As an aside, why *VT100.allowBoldFonts: false?  Is that
> b/c spleen has no bold/italic versions?  That makes it unsuitable as
> the default font IMO.

It does not, the main reason we want spleen is because it has
versions for high-DPI displays, which is very rare for X bitmap
fonts.