You wrote (in your message from Sun 27)
 > Hi,
 >  I would like to be able to use some of the spiffy fonts that come with 
 > X11R6 in xterm. The problem is this, when I fire up xterm thusly:
 > 
 > xterm -rv -fn -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--14-140-75-75-p-82-iso8859-1
 > 
 >  It comes up and the font is great, but the character spacing is messed 
 > up and tabs dont seem to display properly. From what I have gathered I 
 > can only use "fixed" fonts with xterm.
 >  What I want to know is this: 
 > Is there a way to use non-fixed fonts with xterm whre they display
   properly?

No. xterm can only use monospaced fonts. 

I don't know about any terminal emulator that works with non fixed
fonts. There are many things like 'ls' or curses applications that see
the screen as a regular grid of characters.










					Matthieu