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Article #1462Changing fonts and screens
From: Peter Chubb
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 01:10
Date: Thu, 21 May 1992 01:10
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I use the tek-highlight package with Epoch 4.0p1 on a monochrome X terminal. This package changes comments, etc, in source files to have a different font from the normal text, so they stand out. Unfortunately, the choice of fonts used is global. There seems no way in Epoch to make variables screen local (not buffer local). Thus, when the default font on one screen is changed (for example) zones within buffers displayed in that screen keep their old font. With packages like tek-highlight, this means that all screens must use the same font: there's no way to display a zone in *this* screen using lucidatypewriter at 12 point and *that* screen using courier at 14 point when the buffer as a whole is using lucidatypewriter in *this* screen and courier in *that* screen. I think there has to be a dissociation between appearance (screen attributes) and actuality (buffer attributes). Then I could say, make this zone be emphasized by method 1, and let one screen map method one to `nearest oblique-bold font to the one used in the buffer', and another to `inverse video'. So, is there a way to do what I want? Regards, - Peter Chubb Softway Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 305, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 2 698 2322; Fax: +61 2 699 9174; Telex: AA27987 Internet: peterc@softway.oz.au UUCP: ...!uunet!softway.oz!peterc
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,ec1a8ccdbb7524e5,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-20 06:09:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!swift!suite.sw.oz.au!peterc From: peterc@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Changing fonts and screens Message-ID: <1992May21.011005.2205@softway.sw.oz.au> Date: 21 May 92 01:10:05 GMT Sender: news@softway.sw.oz.au (Usenet) Organization: Softway Pty Ltd Lines: 32