The magic incantation to change font
Norman Yarvin
ins_anmy at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
Fri Aug 26 12:40:04 AEST 1988
In article <303 at amanue.UUCP> jr at amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:
> [..]
>Note that the 0 is the slot number. To change to another font as your boot
>font, put whatever font you'd like in slot 0. There's *one* catch! The cursor
>will be the size of the largest loaded font. If your current font is smaller
>than this, backspace works miserably, leaving all kinds of pixel crumbs and
>generally messing up the line.
The following sequence of commands will change your font and make backspace work:
setf 6
setf fontname 6
setf 0
setf fontname 0
(any number in 1-7 can be substituted for the 6)
And remember while doing this to wave the mouse three times above your head
in a circle, having first rubbed it with bat skin :-)
Pease don't ask me why this works, or why subsequences of it don't work. I
have not the faintest idea. It was discovered by accident. I suppose you
can use sfont rather than setf to load the font for all windows, but I
haven't tried it.
Norman Yarvin
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