Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <009601be807a$0b256c80$a8a11dcb@animal.ihug.co.nz> From: "Ross Smith" To: Subject: Re: Cygwin Fonts Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 10:08:43 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) >At 01:50 PM 4/6/99 -0500, Natarajan (Ravi) Murugaiyan wrote: >> >>I am running cygwin version B-20 on Windows NT version 4.0. >>The only fonts showing up for selection in the properties window >>are 'Lucida Console' and 'Raster Fonts'. >> >>How can I make available to cygwin other fonts like Arial? > >That's not a Cygwin issue but a console (cmd.exe) issue. I'm not sure how >you get other fonts with the console. It may well be that you need to have >fonts which are specifically "console" fonts installed... The console is restricted to monospaced fonts. It won't show Arial because that's a proportional font. (I don't know why it doesn't show Courier New, though.) -- Ross Smith ................................... mailto:ross DOT s AT ihug DOT co DOT nz .............. The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand .............. "Perl is the Unix way. 500 million ways of doing the same thing, and 500 million monster egos all insisting on their way being the Proper way of doing it." -- David Parsons -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com