If I might make so bold....

[Charles Dye]

Does any one know of an escape sequence to set boldface text in WT? By which I mean, unambiguously, a boldface type style, not bright-colors-or-maybe-boldface depending on Terminal's current settings.

I know that rendering 'bold' as bright colors has a long history in computing. But come on, it's the twenty-first century already.

 

[vefatica]

Just some text or redraw with new font? I doubt either one.

 

[vefatica]

OSC 50 does it in XTerm (the whole terminal). I found a few examples but every OSC50;...ST I tried in WT was ignored.

 

[Charles Dye]

Well, I'm not really surprised, but I am a little disappointed. It's strange that there are easy ways to do weird stuff like double underlining and strikethrough — and God have mercy, blinking! — but a text style that is useful in the real world...?

 

[Claire_CJS]

i only know of these...

 

[Alpengreis]

@Charles Dye

Should be possible since WT supports DirectWrite ... (the former GDI renderer "Alas" which was introduced > 30 years ago couldn't do that yet).

Set the (related profile) to the following in WT:



The german "Fettformatierung" means bold ...
It's the property "intenseTextStyle", see also here:
Windows Terminal Appearance Profile Settings

Then the escape seq. [1m should work, see my tests here:

Created a .cmd with following code that should be successful in the "normal" windows command line (CMD) (should work in TCC too):

@echo off
@set ESC=
echo %ESC%[1mBOLD or BRIGHT?%ESC%[0m
pause

Before I changed that preference - that's bright only (zooming for better view) ...

After I changed that preference - that's real bold (zooming for better view) ...

 

[Charles Dye]

Yes. But I was hoping to be able to set boldface without changing WT's profile settings — regardless of the profile. I guess that is not going to happen.

 

[Alpengreis]

UNFORTUNATELY, it seems so, yes! Will investigate a bit in this thing yet but I'm not really optimistic ...

 

[Alpengreis]

No chance I think without modify the profile. AT LEAST you can also set there "all": render intense text as both bold and bright", then it won't change the colors related to non WT prompts ... so it could be a one timer change in settings ...

PS: Make it for the "Standard Profile" so it's changes all profiles at once.

 

[AnrDaemon]

There are no such thing as "bold" as in font weight in VT.
It's just different kinds of emphasis. How exactly are these rendered is up to the terminal itself.

 

[Alpengreis]

@AnrDaemon

No thats wrong. since a while real bold is available in WT ... see my example above.