Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
Hmm, the ECMA-48 standard actually has a control sequence for that ("\e[3m"),
but
neither xterm nor rxvt support it. Urxvt does though, but it doesn't seem to
work too
well, e.g. when doing an "echo $'\e[3mM\e[m'", part of the M gets cut off.
The trouble is, terminals are basically designed for rectangular character
cells, so
slanted letter don't really fit that. When trying italic fonts in mintty, parts
of
letters are painted outside their character cells, so they also end up being
cut off
or not erased properly.
Do you know an example of a terminal that does have good italics support?
Original comment by andy.koppe
on 10 Nov 2009 at 10:02
It seems as thought konsole and gnome-terminal support italics but I can't say
if
they do it without the letter chopping. This discussion makes reference to them:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1326998/enabling-italics-in-vim-syntax-
highlighting-for-mac-terminal
Oh well, just a nice-to-have. Thanks!
Original comment by randy.ha...@gmail.com
on 10 Nov 2009 at 10:49
On windows the Consolas font seems to fit inside its character cells. I wanted
to try italic fonts on mintty but I cannot validate the italic font-style
property from the font dialog.
Original comment by canard...@gmail.com
on 30 Jan 2015 at 8:30
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
randy.ha...@gmail.com
on 10 Nov 2009 at 3:31