How can i increase the font through ksh scripts.

My aim is to display the header in a Big word and rest of the messages
from the script

on normal font's

Thanks
RC

On 2006-08-22, aarcee wrote:
> How can i increase the font through ksh scripts.
>
> My aim is to display the header in a Big word and rest of the
> messages from the script on normal font's

What header? How are you displaying it? In what medium?

When I want a larger font, I often do:

/fontsize fontsize 1 add def
font fontsize f

But you are probably not using PostScript. What are you using?

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aarcee wrote:
> How can i increase the font through ksh scripts.
>
> My aim is to display the header in a Big word and rest of the messages
> from the script
>
> on normal font's
>
> Thanks
> RC

Is bold sufficient?
printf "%s\n" "$(tput bold)Bold text $(tput rmso)normal text"

I am already using Bold , i prefer to have that message in Bold as well
as in a larger font.

this is mainly for error display and i want to make sure that people
see it.

I don;t prefer banner as with that ,displaying a string is impossible
on one screen

I am using Korn shell

thanks
Rc


PDreyer wrote:
> aarcee wrote:
> > How can i increase the font through ksh scripts.
> >
> > My aim is to display the header in a Big word and rest of the messages
> > from the script
> >
> > on normal font's
> >
> > Thanks
> > RC
>
> Is bold sufficient?
> printf "%s\n" "$(tput bold)Bold text $(tput rmso)normal text"

On 23 Aug 2006 23:48:54 -0700, aarcee wrote:
> I am already using Bold , i prefer to have that message in Bold as well
> as in a larger font.
>
> this is mainly for error display and i want to make sure that people
> see it.
>
> I don;t prefer banner as with that ,displaying a string is impossible
> on one screen
>
> I am using Korn shell
[...]

Very few terminals support having different fonts at the same
time. Some support blink, some support underline, some support
reverse video, some support setting the background and
foreground colors.

Wouldn't

critical=$(
tput setaf 1
tput setab 7
tput bold
tput blink
tput smso
)
normal=$(
tput sgr0
)

printf '%s\n' "This is ${critical}VERY${normal} important"


be enough?

The bold blink smso can be contracted to sgr 1 0 0 1 0 1

If the terminal is a recent version of xterm that has been
compiled with support for double characters, you can do:

printf '\e#%dVERY IMPORTANT\n' 3 4

or:

printf '\e#6VERY IMPORTANT\n'

Which you can combine with bold/colors/blink...


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Stephane