my font setup, an example

[Marc Lehmann]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:47:35AM +0100, Zsbán Ambrus <ambrus at math.bme.hu> wrote:
> Schmorp has a 9x15 bitmap font somewhere, modified from an older X

Yeah, people can be really picky with their old fonts.

Anyway, first of all, "monospace" is an amalgam of fonts or a font that
fontconfig thinks is "monospacy" enough.

Anyway, slightly on a tangent, most if not all fonts coming with xorg
should be correct, and here is my personal font setup, which is certainly
not up to everyones taste, but it should be a reaosnable example of what
you can do:

   rxvt.font:              9x15bold,\
                           -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1,\
                           -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1, \
                           [codeset=JISX0208]xft:Sazanami Gothic, \
                           xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:autohint=true, \
                           xft:Code2000:antialias=false
   rxvt.boldFont:          -xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso8859-15
   rxvt.italicFont:        xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:italic:autohint=true
   rxvt.boldItalicFont:    xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:bold:italic:autohint=true

urxvt is called rxvt here. the base font is a slightly modified 9x15bold
from xfree 3.3 or so. the next two fonts are actually the same 9x15bold,
but the newer xorg version. and since at least in the past the bold
version wasn't so full with glyphs, I alsoa dded the medium version to
fill the gaps.

finally, for some japanese, and for testing the [] syntax, I add sazanami
gothic, nice for japanese, ugly for everything else.

and finally bitstream vera sans (you might want to go for dejavu) and
code2000 to fill up some gaps.

since my base font is bold, i naturally have a problem with bold - here
I actually use terminus, not because it is bolder, but because it looks
so weird, i.e. "different". likewise, bitstream vera is nicely readable
in italic, and this way, all combinations of bold and italic have some
specific look.

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