Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:50:44 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: "FreeBSD Current Users' list" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fonts for syscons Message-ID: <19981021005044.A6295@keltia.freenix.fr>
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A long time ago I committed the ISO-8859-1 thin font usable for syscons. This font (iso-thin-8x16) is only partially ISO-8859-1 as it lacks some semi-graphic characters and some other are misplaced. I have updated this font and also made a Latin9 (aka ISO-8859-15) version of this font. The "problem" I have is the one about naming. We're not really consistent here: -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5680 Dec 21 1996 iso-8859-2-8x16.fnt -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5673 Dec 21 1996 iso-8x16.fnt -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5678 Aug 26 1997 iso-thin-8x16.fnt -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5675 Oct 5 1997 iso02-8x16.fnt iso-8859-1-thin-8x16.fnt seems a bit long. What about iso01-thin-8x16.fnt ? (the new one would be named iso15-thin-8x16.fnt of course) Any bright idea here ? I used a small script to turn the BDF version from the X server into a raw font file for syscons. If anyone's interested, just ask. -rwxr-xr-x 1 roberto staff 2112 21 oct 00:34 bdftoscn.pl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 roberto staff 598 21 oct 00:20 displayfn.pl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 roberto staff 1609 21 oct 00:30 scntobdf.pl* bdftoscn.pl is a very old script of mine (circa 93) I made to convert X fonts into ones suitable for the 386BSD co(4) console driver... The latin9 font is rather important for us Western Europe users as it has some missing characters (Euro, 'o' and 'e' together and some others) that were forgotten in latin1. PS: xmbdfed rulez. That's a great program. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-BETA #4: Thu Oct 15 01:36:57 CEST 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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