Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

[jose isaias cabrera]

Thank you Thomas!  Sometimes, well, you try too hard.  I have been through 
these and kept trying different settings.  I appreciate your help, folks!

Thanks.

josé


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
To: "jose isaias cabrera" <jicman@cinops.xerox.com>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>; <dickey@his.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color


> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:43:59PM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here is my XWin call from startxwin.bat:
>> run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -silent-dup-error
>>
>> Here is my xterm call:
>>
>> xterm -geometry 80x60 -sl 5000 -bg black -fg grey -fbb -fb font2 -display
>> 127.0.0.1:0.0 -e /usr/bin/bash -l
>
> Well - referring to "xterm -h":
>
>    -/+bdc                       turn off/on display of bold as color
>    -/+pc                        turn on/off PC-style bold colors
>
> and "man xterm":
>
> (options)
>       +bdc    Set the vt100 resource colorBDMode to TRUE, enabling  the 
> dis-
>               play  of  characters  with  bold attribute as color rather 
> than
>               bold
>
>       -pc     This option enables the PC-style use of bold colors (see 
> bold-
>               Colors resource).
>
> (resources)
>       colorBD (class ColorBD)
>               This specifies the color to use to display bold  characters 
> if
>               the  ``colorBDMode''  resource  is  enabled.   The  default 
> is
>               ``XtDefaultForeground.''
>
>       colorBDMode (class ColorAttrMode)
>               Specifies whether characters with the bold attribute should 
> be
>               displayed  in  color  or as bold characters.  Note that 
> setting
>               colorMode off disables all colors, including bold.  The 
> default
>               is ``false.''
>
>       veryBoldColors (class VeryBoldColors)
>               Specifies whether to combine video attributes with colors 
> spec-
>               ified  by  colorBD, colorBL and colorUL.  The resource value 
> is
>               the sum of values for each attribute: 2 for  underline,  4 
> for
>               bold and 8 for blink.  The default is ``0.''
>
> you might try something like
>
> xterm +bdc \
> -xrm '*VT100.veryBoldColors:4' \
> -xrm '*VT100.colorBD:red' \
> -xrm '*VT100.colorBDMode:true'
>
> (that works for me).
>
> -- 
> Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
> http://invisible-island.net
> ftp://invisible-island.net
>