[ale] super tiny console fonts?

[Dow Hurst]

The KDE app Konsole will let you choose from the available fonts via a 
menu and then drag the terminal to the size you want.  I have use a 
6point font for the very reason you've stated.  Worked well.  Of course, 
I guess X provides the fonts.
Dow


Hogg, Russell E wrote:

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> I once was trying to do something similar with a large ASCII art image.
> I found  a style sheet one the web somewhere that set the font size 
> for the <PRE> tag very small..
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> Worked like a charm..
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> Perhaps the same would work for you with a little HTML and some 
> cutting and pasting?
>
> Russ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:55 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] super tiny console fonts?
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> Use Xterm at full-screen with the smallest fonts possible.
>
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 08:32:02PM -0400, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Believe it or not, there's actually a good reason why I'm looking for
> > insanely micro fonts for my console.  Mainly though, I need to view a
> > big textfile (with very long lines) and I'd like to see it all at 
> once. 
> > I've heard of getting 160 characters across using SVGATextmode, but it
> > won't build on Slackware 9 (I tried 2 different boxes); and it looks
> > like it's no longer being supported.  I've since discovered setfont, 
> but
> > I can't for the life of me figure out how I can get a micro font that
> > can do 160 chars on the console.  Does anyone have any insight into how
> > I should approach this?  Is setfont the right tool for the job?
> >
> > Much thanks,
> > CB
> >
> > P.S.
> > Thanks for all the bash tips you guys sent over earlier today.  I got
> > my
> > app working perfectly!
> > Thanks!
> >
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