Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 04 December 2015 13:58:10 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > Speaking of console fonts, is there a 24 pixel-wide font available, or > are there font-editors that can easily double or triple the width of a > font? I have a 1920x1080 monitor, and 8-pixel-wide fonts are unreadable > with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 03 December 2015 18:38:02 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I spent quite a long time playing with these programs back in September, > getting rid of that blasted zero stroke. Trouble was, if I got rid of > the whole stroke, it looked too much like a capital o, and if I got rid > of just the

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the > whole hog. That's right. I talked

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been > > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. > > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries,

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > X was already installed before I installed media-fonts/terminus-font. I couldn't get

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > > X was already installed before I installed > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread waltdnes
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going > the whole hog.

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-03 Thread wabenbau
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no > > diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an > > eight too

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no diagonal > bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an eight too closely. It's horrible, isn't it? > At the time I said I'd

[gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an eight too closely. At the time I said I'd found a font editor called nafe, which had allowed me to delete the offending bar. At the time I was prepared