Author: ken
Date: Thu Sep 15 19:51:17 2016
New Revision: 17767
Log:
Reword my disparaging comment about terminus fonts not remapping similar
glyphs, the vNNx variants do this.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/console-fonts.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Thu Sep 15 19:21:56 2016 (r17766)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Thu Sep 15 19:51:17 2016 (r17767)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "14"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "15"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "09"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2016">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Sep 15 19:21:56
2016 (r17766)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Thu Sep 15 19:51:17
2016 (r17767)
@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>September 15th, 2016</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Reword text on terminus fonts in console-fonts
+ because a few versions such as the XOS4_2 versions (vNNx) do
+ remap quite a lot of codepoints to other similar glyphs. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;8289">#8289</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>September 14th, 2016</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/console-fonts.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/console-fonts.xml Thu Sep 15 19:21:56 2016
(r17766)
+++ trunk/BOOK/postlfs/config/console-fonts.xml Thu Sep 15 19:51:17 2016
(r17767)
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@
greek RHO. Unfortunately, where a font has been created from a BDF file
(the method in terminus and debian's <ulink
url="https://packages.debian.org/jessie/utils/console-setup";>console-setup
- </ulink> such mapping of additional codepoints onto an existing glyph is
- not usually done.
+ </ulink>) such mapping of additional codepoints onto an existing glyph is
+ not always done, although the terminus ter-vXXn fonts do this well.
</para>
<para>
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@
</sect2>
-<!-- finally, link to terminus and link to it from above -->
+<!-- finally, link to terminus and link to it from above -->
<sect2 id="terminus-font">
<title>Using fonts from Terminus-font</title>
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