I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 15 Jul 2011, at 13:03, Paul Wise (Debian)  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Paul Sladen <[email protected] 
> >
> wrote:
>
> My apologies for not being more explicit.  *In light of the on-going
> naming scheme change*, I would appreciate some guidance on what to
> call binary fonts of varying formats derived from the same (source)
> typeface.
>
> Having binary packages all called f-[f-]name but with different
> contents (for example, TTF, vs. PSF) doesn't work.  I would appreciate
> some guidance, or suggestions on how to disambigute these.  For
> example the inclusion of 'psf-' or 'console-' as a prefix, or postfix.
>
> I think I would be putting all the formats in one package, or using
> fonts-[foundtry]-fontname-console.
>
> Are PSF files also used on the console on FreeBSD or Hurd?
>
>  http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=otf2bdf&searchon=contents
>  http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bdf2psf&searchon=contents
>  http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=grub-mkfont&searchon=contents
>
> Ah, good!
>
> -- 
> bye,
> pabs
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>
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> Title:
>  Wishlist: Enable use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font
>
> Status in Ubuntu Font Family:
>  Incomplete
> Status in “ubuntu-font-family-sources” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  The text-mode console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) currently uses the default
>  system/VGA font but a hinted version of Ubuntu Mono would be lovely  
> to
>  have loadable on the Linux console when it's finished.
>
>  Converting a TTF so that it is usable as bitmap Linux console font
>  appears to be a two-stage process;  first rasterising to a BFD bitmap
>  font file (bitmap with metrics), and then from that into a rawform,
>  equal width PSF bitmap console font:
>
>    otf2bdf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/ 
> UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.ttf > UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf
>    bdf2psf UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.bdf /usr/share/bdf2psf/ 
> standard.equivalents /usr/share/bdf2psf/required.set+/usr/share/ 
> bdf2psf/useful.set 256 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf
>    setfont -h17 UbuntuBetaMono-R-R21.psf
>
>  The R21 Mono Beta has a cell bounding box of 482×1000 (including
>  necessary leading and advance); this leads to bounding box of 8x17
>  rather than the traditional 8x16 and this is what the "-n17" forces
>  upon loading.  The result useful but very ugly because of the lack of
>  manual hinting.
>
>  We probably also want to make sure that at least all of the  
> codepoints
>  listed in the 'required.set' file are present and populated if we're
>  going to replace the current default.
>
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