7 Aug 2007 23:44
[ANN] New consolefonts
Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop <at> ntlworld.com>
2007-08-07 21:44:30 GMT
2007-08-07 21:44:30 GMT
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(Continue reading)
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