badly displayed font in active tab

[sebqas]

when I set the font by the X resource:

nedit*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1

the filename in active tab is not properly displayed (with default setting is OK) I have tried many other fonts but it looks the same

[unixwork]

You also have to specify a bold font, for example:

nedit*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1=BOLD

Alternatively, instead of using X11 bitmap fonts, you could also use truetype fonts:

nedit*.renderTable: rt
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontName: Sans
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontSize: 10
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT

[sebqas]

You also have to specify a bold font, for example:

nedit*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1=BOLD

thanks, it works, but I need in the font with unicode, I have installed bold version of this font

-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*

but cant use it here, why ?

Alternatively, instead of using X11 bitmap fonts, you could also use truetype fonts:

nedit*.renderTable: rt
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontName: Sans
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontSize: 10
nedit*.renderTable.rt.fontType: FONT_IS_XFT

that is much better, but how can I know that such resource was available ? it is not listed in the xnedit Help menu

[unixwork]

Don't know why the bold -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* is not working. It is not really related to xnedit, this is more an X11 or motif issue.

And you are right, the XFT based render table config in xnedit is not documented. This is a actually a feature of the motif toolkit, but it would make sense to add this to the xnedit documentation.

[sebqas]

I don't miss bitmap fonts since I have truetypes :) thanks, again