TWm and Fonts

[Julian Bradfield]

On 2023-04-12, Graham Bentley <admin at cpcnw.co.uk> wrote:
> Hopefully I am posting to the right place with a TWM question?

Gosh, that takes me back ... about 35 years!

> It's about fonts used in the menu's and titles etc.
>
> I have entered font definitions in my .twmrc in the format as follows
> (as seen in xfontsel)
>
> MenuFont     "-misc-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> TitleFont     "-xos4-terminus-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
>
> But no matter what font name I try it always looks the same which is
> quite a small sharp font.

Those specifications don't give the size of the font, so it's probably
matching something very small.
Back in the day, I had
MenuFont "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--18-180-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
TitleFont "9x15"

> I can't figure out how the author has created a single horizontal line
> in the menu?
>
> I know there is the option of "some text" f.nop but trying to include
> any type of line drawing characters in the text field doesn't work
> and is represented by commas and braces etc

Can't help there. But did you try using underlines "________________" ?