Carl Lowenstein wrote: > I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 on my Thinkpad to try it. An interesting > thing happened with the terminal app. and its fonts. On my Fedora > Core 3 system, I use gnome-terminal and font "Bitstream Vera Sans > Mono". This gives me distinctive letter shapes for 1l| (number one, > letter el, pipe symbol) and also for 0O (number zero, capital Oh). > The zero has a small horizontal bar in its center, the Oh is plain.
I use the terminus fonts myself. You should be able to simply install them on the Ubuntu system: p console-terminus - Fixed-width fonts for fast reading on the i xfonts-terminus - Fixed-width fonts for fast reading i xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings p xfonts-terminus-oblique - Oblique version of the Terminus font The a comes in two forms: a courier style a, and the original a. I find the original a to look too much like an o for quick reading, so I stick with the courier-style. The 0 has a nice diagonal slash through it, the way the 0 was supposed to be. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
