Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote emerge terminus-font might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives me a nice 80x25 terminal ;) I now

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 02:22:21 Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 12:23:53PM +0200, David Haller wrote emerge terminus-font might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;) I like default8x16 better though. At least at

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
On Sat, 17 May 2014 02:17:17 -0500, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just curious. Just reply and let me know what you use. I think I need to change mine to something better. For monospace, Source Code Pro [1] (media-fonts/source-pro). For proportional, I prefer Helvetica (non-free) but

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 10:28:58 I wrote: Still hoping to find a font editor though, to replace that zero. Found one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nafe/postdownload?source=dlp I've used it to remove the oblique stroke from the zero character and slope its shoulders. The result's not very

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote The Linux text-console font is also very good. I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). There are 5 lat1 consolefonts...

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote: The Linux text-console font is also very good. Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 02:58:26PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote: Howdy, I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 19 May 2014 12:29:09 David Haller wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: Some time ago I tried to find out where the VC font is defined, with a view to removing that oblique bar, but I ran out of steam before finding it. If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be

[gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks who can't see good, what font do

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Philip Webb
140517 Dale wrote: I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. What font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? New Century Schoolbook was designed for small children c 1910 : my eyes are good

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 May 2014 02:17:17 Dale wrote: Howdy, I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? In other

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Dale wrote: I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote: The Linux text-console font is also very good. Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute myopia, the other even more acute astigmatism

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote The Linux text-console font is also very good. I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-10.psfu.gz