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This gave me an idea. Although the 8×8 fonts cannot be synthetically obliqued and boldfaced, because they are square, rectangular Ubuntu Mono can be.

So I can use #unscii PET for upright medium, unscii #BBCMicro for upright boldface, and #UbuntuMono for the oblique medium and boldface.

It works out fairly well.

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The 8×8 #BBCMicro font from #unscii works rather better than Ubuntu Mono does, when rendering virtual terminals to the framebuffer with console-fb-realizer, I think. And the PET font from unscii works better still.

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@leah

That looks like #urxvt is picking up a different glyph set entirely. I don't see how any kind of shift+or transformation could turn the upper '%' (unbolded) into the lower one.

It looks like it's nothing that I need worry about, anyway. My programs do the shift-1-pixel thing too.

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@leah

Re: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/sq

What problem does #urvxt have with boldfacing?

I'm curious, because the usual strategy (although I haven't checked what urxvt does) is overwrite with the glyph shifted by 1 pixel, which isn't going to work well universally.

Is it that?

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