how to set font from command line?

[tom arnall]

how do you set the nedit font to, say, adobe medium 12 point, from the
command line? no doubt it's with '-font', but i can find nothing in
the doc's or googling that tells the exact syntax of the arguments
to '-font'.

tx,

tom arnall
arcata

[Matthijs van Aalten]

Hi,

Don't ask me what all this means, but:
nedit -font -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-*
... sets my NEdit font to courier medium, 18-points.

I opened my $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc file; somewhere at the bottom were some font specifications. I simply copied them and used them for the -font argument. Modify to your needs...

Regards,
Matthijs



-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday 12 October 2009 4:38
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Subject: how to set font from command line?

how do you set the nedit font to, say, adobe medium 12 point, from the
command line? no doubt it's with '-font', but i can find nothing in
the doc's or googling that tells the exact syntax of the arguments
to '-font'.

tx,

tom arnall
arcata

[Andrew Stanaski]

You can use xfontsel to generate a font spec string.

Andy S.

Post by Matthijs van Aalten
Hi,
nedit -font -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-*
... sets my NEdit font to courier medium, 18-points.
I opened my $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc file; somewhere at the bottom were some font specifications. I simply copied them and used them for the -font argument. Modify to your needs...
Regards,
Matthijs
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday 12 October 2009 4:38
To: General list
Subject: how to set font from command line?
how do you set the nedit font to, say, adobe medium 12 point, from the
command line? no doubt it's with '-font', but i can find nothing in
the doc's or googling that tells the exact syntax of the arguments
to '-font'.
tx,
tom arnall
arcata

[Corne Beerse]

Post by Matthijs van Aalten
Hi,
nedit -font -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-*
... sets my NEdit font to courier medium, 18-points.

With this, `nedit -font -*-*-*-*-*--24-*-*-*-*-*-* ` should switch the
current font to 24 point size, provided the current font has that size
available.

Post by Matthijs van Aalten
I opened my $HOME/.nedit/nedit.rc file; somewhere at the bottom were some font specifications. I simply copied them and used them for the -font argument. Modify to your needs...
Regards,
Matthijs
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday 12 October 2009 4:38
To: General list
Subject: how to set font from command line?
how do you set the nedit font to, say, adobe medium 12 point, from the
command line? no doubt it's with '-font', but i can find nothing in
the doc's or googling that tells the exact syntax of the arguments
to '-font'.
tx,
tom arnall
arcata

[Dušan Peterc]

Post by tom arnall
how do you set the nedit font to, say, adobe medium 12 point, from the
command line? no doubt it's with '-font', but i can find nothing in
the doc's or googling that tells the exact syntax of the arguments
to '-font'.

If you use nedit with OpenMotif, you can also have antialiased font in menus
nedit -xrm "*renderTable: rt" -xrm "*rt*fontType: FONT_IS_XFT" -xrm
"*rt*fontName: Sans" -xrm "*rt*fontSize: 10"

Dušan Peterc