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 > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > Font Family Drivers, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Font Family. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022 > > 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. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/724022/+subscriptions ** Attachment added: "unnamed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022/+attachment/2233484/+files/unnamed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724022 Title: Wishlist: Enable use of Ubuntu Mono as .psf console-setup font To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/724022/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
