Ken Moffat | 7 Aug 2007 23:44

[ANN] New consolefonts

 People who wish to be able to read a wider range of languages on
the console (e.g. on servers, or while waiting for a build of xorg
to finish) might be interested in this.  It's a series of 8x16 psfu
fonts created from a bdf font.

 The method follows Dmitry Bolkovityanov's uni_vga (indeed, it uses
his perl script) but the base font started out as etl16.  I first
modified that to use a main format of 3 lines above the capital
letters, 10 lines for capitals, and 3 lines for descenders.  Needing
a new name for it, I noted that U+03A3 is 'Σ' and called it
sigma-consolefonts.  After a limited initial prerelease it is now
ready for its 0.1 release.

 The homepage is
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/consolefonts/sigma.html
 and there is a backup copy of the tarball at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/fonts/sigma-consolefonts/

 My main focus is on legibility, followed by coverage of current
languages.  These fonts are only really concerned with alphabetic
scripts, and the armenian and georgian letters (plus arabic and
hebrew) are probably unchanged from etl16.  Many of the latin,
cyrillic, and greek letters have had their forms changed.  Like
Dmitry, but unlike most console fonts, I include the bdf file (the
source, as it were) and map files. So, you can alter any letter forms
which offend you, or produce your own map with a different
combination of glyphs.  (Patches welcomed if you find errors.)

 Although there are some 256-glyph files, I prefer 512-glyph at the
expense of losing bright colours.  As with the fonts used in X, I
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Daniel Glassey | 8 Aug 2007 00:13
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From: Ken Moffat <XzarniwhoopX X_a.t._X XntlworldX X.dot.X XcomX>
Date: 07-Aug-2007 22:44
Subject: [ANN] New consolefonts
To: linux-utf8 <at> nl.linux.org

 People who wish to be able to read a wider range of languages on
the console (e.g. on servers, or while waiting for a build of xorg
to finish) might be interested in this.  It's a series of 8x16 psfu
fonts created from a bdf font.

 The method follows Dmitry Bolkovityanov's uni_vga (indeed, it uses
his perl script) but the base font started out as etl16.  I first
modified that to use a main format of 3 lines above the capital
letters, 10 lines for capitals, and 3 lines for descenders.  Needing
a new name for it, I noted that U+03A3 is 'Σ' and called it
sigma-consolefonts.  After a limited initial prerelease it is now
ready for its 0.1 release.

 The homepage is
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zarniwhoop/consolefonts/sigma.html
 and there is a backup copy of the tarball at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/fonts/sigma-consolefonts/

 My main focus is on legibility, followed by coverage of current
languages.  These fonts are only really concerned with alphabetic
scripts, and the armenian and georgian letters (plus arabic and
hebrew) are probably unchanged from etl16.  Many of the latin,
cyrillic, and greek letters have had their forms changed.  Like
Dmitry, but unlike most console fonts, I include the bdf file (the
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