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Subject: Re: setting xterm font from the command line
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Robert Huff [Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:05:49AM -0400]:
>=20
> Michael A. Smith writes:
>=20
> >  xfontsel works great and works fine for the sample string above=20
> >  (Bitstream Charter), but xterm barfs on font strings that have spaces,=
=20
> >  for example:
> > =20
> >  "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-*-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
>=20
> 	As far as I know, a correct fontspec has no spaces.  Try
> replacing the ' 's with '-'s and see what happens.

No, it can. Dash is a separator of given fields in font specification, so
what you just said is totally wrong.

--=20
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