TWm and Fonts

[Julian Bradfield]

On 2023-04-12, David Howorth <xorg at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
>