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[Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> WORKAROUND:
> This is still pretty clunky but I've been using this solution since 8.04, to solve this very problem:
>
> The following shell code disables bold (overstrike) fonts in xterm:
> echo -e "\e[1mA\e[2J\e[7mB\e[m\e[?5h\e[?5l"

well... that doesn't disable bold fonts.  Breaking it down, it's doing

tput bold
echo -n "A"
clear
tput smso
echo -n "B"
tput sgr0  (more or less)
tput flash

xterm's alwaysBoldMode resource might help for this bug report.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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xterm rendering this font real ugly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/44630
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