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by **Norm Dresne** » Mon, 07 Feb 2000 04:00:00

Because I'm porting a program that originally ran under MS-DOS (sort-of, but
that's a long, off-topic story) on a PC, I really need to be able to display
what in the PC-world are called the line-drawing (or box-drawing) characters
within an xterm window. It's easy from a text-terminal because they are in
the VGA-card's native character set, but the X-Window fonts don't include
these characters, though they include a large number of "foreign" language
characters which my application doesn't need.

The simplest way to do the porting is to find an X-Window font that includes
the usual 32-127 characters plus an approximation to the box-drawing set on
the VGA card. But I couldn't find -- in the reasonably complete load from
RH 5.2 -- any fonts that met these requirements.

If I can't do this, then the next simplest way to do this is to take an
existing font and replace some of the characters I don't need (and won't
ever need -- this is an embedded application, not mass-market software) and
edit the font to add the characters I need. But I haven't been able to find
a font-editor either.

All suggestions (or solutions) are welcome.

Thanks
Norm

by **T.E.Dicke** » Tue, 08 Feb 2000 04:00:00

> Because I'm porting a program that originally ran under MS-DOS (sort-of, but
> that's a long, off-topic story) on a PC, I really need to be able to display
> what in the PC-world are called the line-drawing (or box-drawing) characters
> within an xterm window. It's easy from a text-terminal because they are in

xterm emulates vt100(etc), which does line-drawing characters with the
alternate character set. the fixed-pitch fonts that are designed for
xterm all have the alternate characters in cells 1-31. in addition,
XFree86 xterm will make line-drawing characters at runtime for fonts
that don't have them.

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Thomas E.*ey

http://www.veryComputer.com/

by fv » Tue, 08 Feb 2000 04:00:00

>Because I'm porting a program that originally ran under MS-DOS (sort-of, but
>that's a long, off-topic story) on a PC, I really need to be able to display
>what in the PC-world are called the line-drawing (or box-drawing) characters
>within an xterm window. It's easy from a text-terminal because they are in
>the VGA-card's native character set, but the X-Window fonts don't include
>these characters, though they include a large number of "foreign" language
>characters which my application doesn't need.

>The simplest way to do the porting is to find an X-Window font that includes
>the usual 32-127 characters plus an approximation to the box-drawing set on
>the VGA card. But I couldn't find -- in the reasonably complete load from
>RH 5.2 -- any fonts that met these requirements.

>If I can't do this, then the next simplest way to do this is to take an
>existing font and replace some of the characters I don't need (and won't
>ever need -- this is an embedded application, not mass-market software) and
>edit the font to add the characters I need. But I haven't been able to find
>a font-editor either.

You could try the font 'vga', which is included in most distro's. However, I
have a feeling there must be a better way, don't ask me what.

BTW, embedded X? ARGH.

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Frank v Waveren

ICQ# 10074100

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