From sclauzer at sissa.it  Fri Jun 11 09:55:17 2010
From: sclauzer at sissa.it (Gabriele Sclauzero)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:55:17 +0200
Subject: [xcrysden] properties of fonts
Message-ID: <4C11EBE5.4020200@sissa.it>

Dear users,

     I want to increase the size of the fonts in the xcrysden GUI 
(buttons, menus). I succeeded by specifying a line like this:

*font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-

in the Xcrysden_defaults file. Anyway I'm not completely satisfied of 
the results, since the fonts are bigger but they look as they have a too 
thin body (I don't remember the technical word to say that...). Where 
can I learn all the possible options for this *font: definition here 
above (things like: available font series, sizes, shapes, "thickness", ...).
Is there a possibility to add an antialiasing options, in order to make 
those fonts to look smoother?

Another issue which came about after increasing the font size: the 
default window size happens to be a bit too small to accomodate all the 
buttons with the larger fonts, so that I have to resize it manually 
after starting xcrysden. Where and how do I specify my default window size?

Regards,

GS

-- 

Gabriele Sclauzero, EPFL SB ITP CSEA
PH H2 462, Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne


From tone.kokalj at ijs.si  Fri Jun 11 20:19:49 2010
From: tone.kokalj at ijs.si (Tone Kokalj)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:19:49 +0200
Subject: [xcrysden] properties of fonts
In-Reply-To: <4C11EBE5.4020200@sissa.it>
References: <4C11EBE5.4020200@sissa.it>
Message-ID: <1276280389.6839.14.camel@walk.ijs.si>

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 09:55 +0200, Gabriele Sclauzero wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
>      I want to increase the size of the fonts in the xcrysden GUI 
> (buttons, menus). I succeeded by specifying a line like this:
> 
> *font: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-
> 
> in the Xcrysden_defaults file. Anyway I'm not completely satisfied of 
> the results, since the fonts are bigger but they look as they have a too 
> thin body (I don't remember the technical word to say that...). Where 
> can I learn all the possible options for this *font: definition

That is nothing but the X11 specification of the font and "*" are
wildcards. Try the xfontsel. It is an ancient x11 font-selection program
with the possibility to set all the fields. Select the font there and
paste it to Xcrysden_defaults file.

> Is there a possibility to add an antialiasing options, in order to make 
> those fonts to look smoother?

While the new Tk support the antialiased fonts (actually on my system,
xcrysden uses antialiased fonts), I don't know if this will work via
Xcrysden_defaults file.


> Another issue which came about after increasing the font size: the 
> default window size happens to be a bit too small to accomodate all the 
> buttons with the larger fonts, so that I have to resize it manually 
> after starting xcrysden. Where and how do I specify my default window size?

If you are referring to xcrysden main-window, I believe there is little
you can do: its sizes are hard-coded so as that all "buttons" fits
within the panel. Usually this works well with the default font, but
when larger font is specified one faces your problem.

Regards, Tone
-- 
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