TWm and Fonts

[David Howorth]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:22:35 +0100 (BST)
Julian Bradfield <jcb+fdt at julianbradfield.org> wrote:

> On 2023-04-12, Graham Bentley <admin at cpcnw.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hopefully I am posting to the right place with a TWM question?  
> 
> Gosh, that takes me back ... about 35 years!
> 
> > It's about fonts used in the menu's and titles etc.
> >
> > I have entered font definitions in my .twmrc in the format as
> > follows (as seen in xfontsel)
> >
> > MenuFont     "-misc-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> > TitleFont     "-xos4-terminus-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> >
> > But no matter what font name I try it always looks the same which is
> > quite a small sharp font.  
> 
> Those specifications don't give the size of the font, so it's probably
> matching something very small.
> Back in the day, I had
> MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
> TitleFont "9x15"
> 
> > I can't figure out how the author has created a single horizontal
> > line in the menu?
> >
> > I know there is the option of "some text" f.nop but trying to
> > include any type of line drawing characters in the text field
> > doesn't work and is represented by commas and braces etc  
> 
> Can't help there. But did you try using underlines
> "________________" ?

Perhaps (just a wild guess)

 ""         f.separator