Using X FONTS
You can get a list of all the available X fonts by typing:
xlsfonts | more
Most X programs will take the "-fn" option to specify a font to use, or
you can use the "font" resource in your .Xresources file to specify a
font. For example, "emacs -fn 9x15" would run emacs with the 9x15 font.
In addition to specifying fonts on the command line, most programs will
obey a "font" resource in your .Xresources file; for example, you could
put the line "xterm*font: 8x13" to make 8x13 your default xterm font. See
the man page for "X" (type "man X") for more information about X
resources.
Note that emacs and xterm will only work properly using fixed-width fonts.
The commonly used fixed-width text fonts we have are:
10x20 7x13bold
12x24 7x14
5x8 8x13
6x10 8x13bold
6x12 8x16
6x13 9x15
6x13bold 9x15bold
6x9 fixed
7x13
and all the courier fonts named as described below.
Most fonts have a really long 14-field name in the form:
-foundry-family-weight-slant-setwidth-style-pixelSize-pointSize-\
Xresolution-Yresolution-spacing-averageWidth-registry-encoding
(The backslash at the end of the first line means that the whole font name
is actually one line, even though it can't be typed that way here.) Note
that a hyphen, '-', is used as a field delimiter. In most cases only a
subset of the fields should ever be specified explicitly, with the
remaining fields wildcarded (e.g., using an asterisk, *). If you do use
wildcards, you should probably place the name of the font in single or
double quotes when using it from the command line.
When you specify a font name you need include only the minimum information
that is crucial to the application. You are not required to specify a
font-specification fully -- you can leave off later hyphens and matching
wildcards (just make sure the fields you include are in the correct
position in the list). For example, the following two specifications
identify fonts acceptably (the first identifies a 12pt Helvetica, the
second a 14pt Courier Bold Oblique):
*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*
*-courier-bold-o-*-*-*-140-*
This general form is recommended:
*-family-weight-slant-*-*-*-pointSize-*
For more information about the various fields in X font names, see the "X
Font Name Fields" stock answer.
The actually see different fonts and be able to tailor them, use the
utility called "xfontsel". type:
xfontsel &
It is possible to preview a font by typing:
xfd -fn fontname &
For more information, type any or all of the following at the athena% prompt:
man xlsfonts
man xfontsel
man xfd
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