change the font size

mierdatuti · 01-06-2009, 07:01 AM

Hi,

I'm doing a bash script.
I would like to show some words in the terminal with printf o with echo that have more size than the normal size.

How could I do this with bash??

Many thanks!

ilikejam · 01-06-2009, 08:24 AM

Hi.

You can't increase the font size as fas as I'm aware - the controlling terminal app (or indeed hardware terminal) controls the size and typeface. You can do bold, though:

http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/...ting-text.html

Dave

mierdatuti · 01-14-2009, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilikejam

Hi.

You can't increase the font size as fas as I'm aware - the controlling terminal app (or indeed hardware terminal) controls the size and typeface. You can do bold, though:

http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/...ting-text.html

Dave

Hi,
Finally I could change the font size in bash.

string="xxxx yyy xxx zzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ lllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzyy dslfjskdf sksksk sdfsdf sd 324234234 x.x.x.x.sdfjslfs 24 234l232423423 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
F_VDOBLE="\033#6"
printf "${F_VDOBLE}$string"

The problem that I have is that this command only puts the first line with wide font, the next lines have normal font. What can I do to put all the text with wide font if the string have more of one line?

Any help?

Many thanks

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irey · 01-14-2009, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mierdatuti

Hi,
Finally I could change the font size in bash.

string="xxxx yyy xxx zzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ lllllllllllllllllllzzzzzzzyy dslfjskdf sksksk sdfsdf sd 324234234 x.x.x.x.sdfjslfs 24 234l232423423 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxyyyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
F_VDOBLE="\033#6"
printf "${F_VDOBLE}$string"

I'm sorry I can't help you to make it persistent, but I'm curious about your solution. I thought ilikejam was right, indeed in a text mode terminal and in an xterm your script simply prints text in normal font. But I tested it in roxterm and in it's parent terminal it printed:

Code:

(roxterm:2065): Vte-WARNING **: No handler for control sequence `double-width' defined.

What kind of terminal are you using?

irey · 01-14-2009, 05:25 AM

I asked google about your solution and it pointed me here:
http://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/chapter3.html

It appears that double width is specific to the line where you printed the control sequence. What you can do is using an alternate print function, let's call it printw:

Code:

printw() {
        # The $* special variable means all parameters
	printf "\033#6$*"
}

#This line should be printed in double width.
printw "Hello, world!"

But I'm still curious about the terminal type that you used to see double width in action...

mierdatuti · 01-14-2009, 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by irey

I'm sorry I can't help you to make it persistent, but I'm curious about your solution. I thought ilikejam was right, indeed in a text mode terminal and in an xterm your script simply prints text in normal font. But I tested it in roxterm and in it's parent terminal it printed:

Code:

(roxterm:2065): Vte-WARNING **: No handler for control sequence `double-width' defined.

What kind of terminal are you using?

Thanks for your help. I'm using kubuntu and the terminal that I use is Konsole.

Thanks

ilikejam · 01-14-2009, 10:11 AM

FYI, also works in PuTTY.