I'm out of the office until 1st August. On 15 Jul 2011, at 11:31, Paul Wise (Debian) <724...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> I guess you didn't notice, but in Debian we are moving to a new font > package naming policy. We are getting rid of the format-specific > prefix for font packages and going for fonts-[foundry-]fontname, where > the foundry is completely option and should only be used for > disambiguation purposes. > > Also, do the tools for building console fonts still exist in Debian? I > thought they were removed long ago and that we can no longer build > such fonts from source. > > -- > 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 -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
