Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:11:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: In a mono font the O looks bigger because it fills more of the tile, so just remember The Big O. So instead of a font with a line through the zero, you have one where the capital o wears dark glasses? -- Neil Bothwick PCMCIA:

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 09 February 2015 01:00:32 Dale wrote: Anyone besides me use the ctrl + shortcut to zoom in? Yes, often. I do that and I have bi-focals on. I also have a magnifying glass right in front of my monitor. I tried varifocals but had to give them up. I now have three single- focus

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-09 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 09.02.2015 um 08:49 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 01:16:58 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. Yes. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it started causing me

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and recently since it started causing me

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that form of zero, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 11:00:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I don't know how to remove it. I've always been puzzled by that

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:16:31 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: It dates back to the days when fonts were much coarser and it was the only reliable way to distinguish between a zero and a capital o. Less useful nowadays and many fonts no longer use it. Yes, I know, but I can't see why it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: On 08/02/2015 13:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 09:33:59 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't know what you mean with oblique stroke. Do you mean the slash through the letter zero? Anyway, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 09/02/2015 00:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2015 17:31:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 08 February 2015 23:23:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the thin one It's the same with me. :-) I'd have thought it

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 20:00:32 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I also use terminus-font as console font and even as X11 desktop font since many years. It's readability is very good. I hadn't thought of it for Konsole, but now I have and I like it. But something's odd here: I've chosen the

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-07 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 07.02.2015 um 09:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Wednesday 04 February 2015 20:00:32 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I also use terminus-font as console font and even as X11 desktop font since many years. It's readability is very good. I hadn't thought of it

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-07 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 08.02.2015 um 01:16 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: Am Samstag, 07.02.2015 um 09:59 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Wednesday 04 February 2015 20:00:32 waben...@gmail.com wrote: I also use terminus-font as console font and even as X11 desktop font since

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:33:58PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:19:20 Walter Dnes wrote: A bit of a tangent... do you know of any font editors that will convert a font to double-wide? E.g. convert 8x8 to 16x8, 8x12 to 16x12, or 8x16 to 16x16. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread wabenbau
Am Mittwoch, 04.02.2015 um 15:33 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: From my own experience I can only suggest terminus-font; you might find an acceptable compromise there as its heights range from 12 to 32 pixels, so I suppose its widths will range from 6 to 16. Or perhaps some

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:43:31PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote Hello list, This is to summarise what I did in case anyone else wants to do something similar. Last May I was looking for a font that would distinguish the upper-case letter O from the numbers 0 and 8 on a virtual TTY with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 09:19:20 Walter Dnes wrote: A bit of a tangent... do you know of any font editors that will convert a font to double-wide? E.g. convert 8x8 to 16x8, 8x12 to 16x12, or 8x16 to 16x16. I think that would be a bit of a tall order, unless you're happy to accept

[gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is to summarise what I did in case anyone else wants to do something similar. Last May I was looking for a font that would distinguish the upper-case letter O from the numbers 0 and 8 on a virtual TTY with a frame-buffer. My difficulty was twofold: the available unicode fonts