On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:55:24PM -0500, William Harrington wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 22:32:47 -0500 > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd like to see a mention of terminus fonts. I find them very useful for > > the console when a display manager is not used. My personal preference is > > ter-128n. Otherwise the default glyphs are very tiny. > > I agree, The terminus fonts are very good to have. I have even built kernels > with it builtin replacing the default font. > > For those curious about adding/replacing a font in the kernel: > > http://www.seasip.info/Unix/PSF/ > > and > > https://www.artembutusov.com/modify-linux-kernel-font/ > > In the past I remembered needing to use a program written way back for the > amiga for converting a font to be used by the kernel, but it looks like > psftools may do it all now. > > Sincerely, > William Harrington
Thanks both for these comments - I was ignoring console fonts because they are not a thing that people change very often : build a system, decide you don't like the default font, try others, use the one you like best for all future builds. Also, they are easy enough to alter (with psftools) :-) But if people think terminus should be mentioned, that changes the scope. What I had intended was to expand the TTF part into a page at the end of the X Window System Environment chapter (i.e. immediately after the current page, move the kde fonts to it, add a bit more detail and perhaps mention Unified Han (links to wikipedia) and also pango (and an environment variable for pango to change the order of preference for CJK). For TTF/OTF fonts, once you have chosen some fonts you like, the reasons to add to them are either if you find something you are interested in which does not render (i.e. extra languages/extra scripts) or if your DE mandates a change. For developers, forcing different fonts/sizes to test how well or badly a revised web page works is also a reason to have different fonts and different browsers (we've been there, *cough*). Generally, having the latest release brings very little benefit so external links should be good enough. But console fonts do not fit the X chapter, and I'm not convinced that they fit in "Graphics and Font Libraries" or "General Utilities". ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
