Graham Hannington
2019-01-08 05:46:04 UTC
In IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), I have chosen a vector (TrueType) display font, IBM Plex Mono, as opposed to a raster/bitmap font such as IBM3270.
PCOMM stretches (condenses or expands) the characters of TrueType fonts to fit the PCOMM window.
Can I prevent PCOMM stretching TrueType fonts? Without resorting to maximizing the PCOMM window?
Maximizing the PCOMM window grays-out the Font option under Edit > Preferences > Appearance. And the font characters in that maximized window appear, to my eye, to be unstretched; at least, in a 24x80 session on my 23-inch monitor.
Alternatively, is there a way to explicitly specify a font "stretch factor"; for example, in the LastExitView profile settings?
I understand that I could prevent PCOMM from stretching characters by selecting a bitmap font instead. However, here, I'm particularly interested in using a TrueType font; specifically, IBM Plex Mono. For some background on this use case, see the following comment in GitHub:
https://github.com/IBM/plex/issues/93#issuecomment-414675179
A related question: can someone explain, or point me to documentation for, the details of the LastExitView profile setting? For example, for my session A:
A=3 382 97 1548 809 5 13 27 400 1 IBM Plex Mono— 1047
I get that "A" is the session, "IBM Plex Mono" is the font, and "1047" is the code page, but I'm unclear about the other values; I imagine they might include screen coordinates and/or window width and height.
I'm using PCOMM Version 12.0.
Graham Hannington
PCOMM stretches (condenses or expands) the characters of TrueType fonts to fit the PCOMM window.
Can I prevent PCOMM stretching TrueType fonts? Without resorting to maximizing the PCOMM window?
Maximizing the PCOMM window grays-out the Font option under Edit > Preferences > Appearance. And the font characters in that maximized window appear, to my eye, to be unstretched; at least, in a 24x80 session on my 23-inch monitor.
Alternatively, is there a way to explicitly specify a font "stretch factor"; for example, in the LastExitView profile settings?
I understand that I could prevent PCOMM from stretching characters by selecting a bitmap font instead. However, here, I'm particularly interested in using a TrueType font; specifically, IBM Plex Mono. For some background on this use case, see the following comment in GitHub:
https://github.com/IBM/plex/issues/93#issuecomment-414675179
A related question: can someone explain, or point me to documentation for, the details of the LastExitView profile setting? For example, for my session A:
A=3 382 97 1548 809 5 13 27 400 1 IBM Plex Mono— 1047
I get that "A" is the session, "IBM Plex Mono" is the font, and "1047" is the code page, but I'm unclear about the other values; I imagine they might include screen coordinates and/or window width and height.
I'm using PCOMM Version 12.0.
Graham Hannington