Re: Pango 'feature'...

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> For example, on Windows, if I take Courier New, do two lines one in Bold the
> onther in Plain, they have both exactly the same size. Another example is
> the 'bold' feature in XTerm or in any other X Terminal emulators : you have
> emboldened fonts which have exactly the same height / width than the plain
> font (otherwise your terminal window would look like crap).
> So maybe I shall put the question in reverse : how can I do this :-) ?

Many terminal emulators implement bold using a brighter colour rather than
a different font. For example, dark grey vs black.

mark

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