From: Lars Haugseth <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2012-04-21T01:17:36+09:00
Subject: Re: How can i make bigger font with ruby puts for gnome-terminal or other terminal on linux?

On 04/20/2012 02:24 PM, gmspro gmspro wrote:
> How can i make bigger font with ruby puts for gnome-terminal or other 
> terminal on linux? We can make bigger font from 
> gnome-terminal>Edit>Preferences>Colors How can i do the same thing 
> using ruby? 

You can't. Not from Ruby, nor any other programming language, since 
terminals don't support it. Some terminals support switching between 
alternative fonts using <ESC>( and <ESC>), but it most cases it just 
toggles bold or italics variants of the standard font.

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Lars Haugseth