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



On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 11:58:12AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > > At higher DPIs, xterm can suitably 'enbolden' spleen that it looks
 > > readable.  Allowing it to 'make fonts bold' at lower DPIs obfuscates
 > > the shape of letters too much IMO.
 > 
 > Which brings us back to the question of why inflict this onto
 > ourselves by using a font without a bold variant as the default? :)

Obviously we should carry local patches for all legacy x11 programs
that don't know how to use modern fonts :-)

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David A. Holland
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