Package: console-setup-linux
Version: 1.160
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I am trying to configure a framebuffer with 720 pixel width to have
exactly 80 columns in text mode. The perfect font width would be 9
pixels.
Digging into console-setup, I found that it actually ships with 15x9
BDFs. Quoting Fonts/Makefile:
Fixed15-BDFS := 9x15-IL2.bdf+9x15.bdf+9x15c.bdf
However, all variants with Fixed15 face actually have a width of 8
pixels:
$ file Lat15-Fixed15.psf
Lat15-Fixed15.psf: Linux/i386 PC Screen Font v1 data, 256 characters, Unicode
directory, 8x15
This is because Fixed15 is not in ALL_FB_FONT_NAMES and therefore,
bdf2psf is *not* called with the --fb argument when generating the psf
from the BDFs.
I sort of wonder if this is actually a bug/oversight?
Is Fixed15 supposed to have size 15x8? If no, the fix would be to add
it to the list of FB fonts. However, such a "fix" would change the size
of a font which is likely in use by users, and would result in their
screen dimensions changing on them.
Therefore, I suggest to add a new face called Fixed15x9. The only
difference to Fixed15 is, that --fb is passed to bdf2psf, which avoids
cropping the width down to 8 pixels.
https://github.com/mlang/brlpi/blob/master/package/console-setup/0001-Add-Fixed15x9.patch
diff --git a/Fonts/Makefile b/Fonts/Makefile
index 3769cbe..e4afadd 100644
--- a/Fonts/Makefile
+++ b/Fonts/Makefile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ include $(fntdir)/../rules.mk
Fixed13-BDFS := 8x13-IL2.bdf+8x13.bdf+8x13c.bdf
Fixed14-BDFS := georgian14.bdf+7x14-IL2.bdf+7x14.bdf+7x14c.bdf+h14.bdf+etl14-unicode.bdf
Fixed15-BDFS := 9x15-IL2.bdf+9x15.bdf+9x15c.bdf
+Fixed15x9-BDFS := 9x15-IL2.bdf+9x15.bdf+9x15c.bdf
Fixed16-BDFS := georgian16.bdf+unifont.bdf+h16.bdf+etl16-unicode.bdf
Fixed18-BDFS := 9x18.bdf
Fixed24x12-BDFS := h24.bdf+etl24-unicode.bdf
@@ -169,7 +170,7 @@ Vietnamese-legacy28x16-BDFS := $(call adddouble, $(Vietnamese-legacy14-BDFS))
###
# All available non-legacy font faces
-NONLEGACY_FACES := Fixed13 Fixed14 Fixed15 Fixed16 \
+NONLEGACY_FACES := Fixed13 Fixed14 Fixed15 Fixed15x9 Fixed16 \
Fixed18 Fixed24x12 \
FixedBold13 FixedBold14 FixedBold15 FixedBold16 \
FixedBold18 FixedBold24x12 \
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ ALL_FONT_NAMES := $(sort $(foreach face, $(FACES), \
# Good-looking fonts with enough i18n support
GOOD_FONT_NAMES := $(filter \
- %-Fixed13 %-Fixed14 %-Fixed15 %-Fixed16 %-Fixed18 \
+ %-Fixed13 %-Fixed14 %-Fixed15 %-Fixed15x9 %-Fixed16 %-Fixed18 \
%-Terminus12x6 %-Terminus14 %-Terminus16 \
%-Terminus22x11 %-Terminus24x12 %-Terminus20x10 \
%-Terminus28x14 %-Terminus32x16 \
@@ -232,10 +233,10 @@ BSD_FONT_NAMES := $(filter-out %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %x16, \
$(FONT_NAMES)))
# all available fonts for framebuffer
-ALL_FB_FONT_NAMES := $(filter %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %x16, \
+ALL_FB_FONT_NAMES := $(filter %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %-Fixed15x9 %x16, \
$(ALL_FONT_NAMES))
# all vailable fonts not for framebuffer
-ALL_NONFB_FONT_NAMES := $(filter-out %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %x16, \
+ALL_NONFB_FONT_NAMES := $(filter-out %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %-Fixed15x9 %x16, \
$(ALL_FONT_NAMES))
# all available fonts for FreeBSD
ALL_BSD_FONT_NAMES := $(filter-out %x6 %x10 %x11 %x12 %x14 %x16, \
diff --git a/Fonts/soft.Makefile b/Fonts/soft.Makefile
index 2c54998..01182e8 100644
--- a/Fonts/soft.Makefile
+++ b/Fonts/soft.Makefile
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-I18N_FONT_NAMES := Arabic-Fixed15 Arabic-Fixed16 Arabic-FixedBold15 Arabic-FixedBold16 Arabic-VGA14 Arabic-VGA16 Arabic-VGA28x16 Arabic-VGA32x16 Arabic-VGA8 Armenian-Fixed13 Armenian-Fixed14 Armenian-Fixed15 Armenian-Fixed16 Armenian-Fixed18 Armenian-Fixed24x12 Armenian-FixedBold14 Armenian-FixedBold16 Armenian-FixedBold24x12 Armenian-FixedOblique13 CyrAsia-Courier15 CyrAsia-Fixed13 CyrAsia-Fixed14 CyrAsia-Fixed15 CyrAsia-Fixed16 CyrAsia-Fixed18 CyrAsia-Fixed24x12 CyrAsia-FixedBold14 CyrAsia-FixedBold16 CyrAsia-FixedBold24x12 CyrAsia-FixedOblique13 CyrAsia-Lucid13 CyrAsia-Terminus12x6 CyrAsia-Terminus14 CyrAsia-Terminus16 CyrAsia-Terminus20x10 CyrAsia-Terminus22x11 CyrAsia-Terminus24x12 CyrAsia-Terminus28x14 CyrAsia-Terminus32x16 CyrAsia-TerminusBold12x6 CyrAsia-TerminusBold14 CyrAsia-TerminusBold16 CyrAsia-TerminusBold20x10 CyrAsia-TerminusBold22x11 CyrAsia-TerminusBold24x12 CyrAsia-TerminusBold28x14 CyrAsia-TerminusBold32x16 CyrAsia-TerminusBoldVGA14 CyrAsia-TerminusBoldVGA16 CyrKoi-Courier13 CyrKoi-Courier15 CyrKoi-Courier16 CyrKoi-CourierBold13 CyrKoi-CourierBold15 CyrKoi-Fixed13 CyrKoi-Fixed14 CyrKoi-Fixed15 CyrKoi-Fixed16 CyrKoi-Fixed18 CyrKoi-Fixed24x12 CyrKoi-FixedBold13 CyrKoi-FixedBold14 CyrKoi-FixedBold15 CyrKoi-FixedBold16 CyrKoi-FixedBold18 CyrKoi-FixedBold24x12 CyrKoi-FixedOblique13 CyrKoi-Lucid13 CyrKoi-Lucid15 CyrKoi-LucidBold13 CyrKoi-LucidBold15 CyrKoi-Terminus12x6 CyrKoi-Terminus14 CyrKoi-Terminus16 CyrKoi-Terminus20x10 CyrKoi-Terminus22x11 CyrKoi-Terminus24x12 CyrKoi-Terminus28x14
