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1. About.

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1.1. Quick installation.

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1.2. Recommended modes.

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1.3. Legend.

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1.4. Variants.

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1.5. Notes.

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2. Linux console.

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2.1. consoletools.

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2.2. kbd.

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2.3. Quick reference.

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2.4. Legend.

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2.5. Notes.

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3. UNIX console.

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3.1. bsd-pcvt.

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3.2. Legend.

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3.3. Notes.

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4. X11 Window System.

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4.1. Installation.

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4.2. Notes.

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5. Frequently Asked Questions.

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6. Bugs.

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7. Legal information.

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7.1. License.

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7.2. Copyright.

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1. About.

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This archive contains source code for generating and installing Terminus

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Font for Linux console, UNIX console and X11 Window System.

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- version 4.20

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- sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28, 16x32

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- styles normal, bold, EGA/VGA bold

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- code pages ISO10646-1

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- characters 690

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- format Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) version 2.1

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The character set covers ISO8859-1/2/5/9/13/15/16, IBM-437/852/855/866,

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Windows-1250/1251/1252/1254/1257, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Paratype-PT154/PT254,

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Bulgarian-MIK, Macintosh-Ukrainian, Esperanto and many others (a total of

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about 110 language sets). Also included are the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm

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pseudographic characters.

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1.1. Quick installation.

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The commands:

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX]

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$ make

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# make install

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compile and install the Linux console and X11 Window System fonts, and

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# make fontdir

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updates fonts.dir for X11 (if you don't know what fonts.dir is, execute the

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command).

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1.2. Recommended modes.

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Obviously, the larger and better a monitor is, the higher modes (with the

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respective rates) can be used, and the more text may fit on the screen while

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remaining comfortably readable - and vice versa. As a comparison base, it is

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considered normal to use 640x480 and 800x600 modes with font size 8x16 and

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10x20 respectively (that is, 80 columns by 30 lines) on 14" and 15" CRT

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monitors.

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Use modes that match your display ratio. Most personal computer monitors are

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4:3, so use 1280x960 (4:3) instead of 1280x1024 (5:4) if possible. The

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EGA/VGA text modes are 720x400 (9:5), but the font (i.e. sizes 8x14 and

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8x16) is designed to work with them.

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1.3. Legend.

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The file names are structured as follows:

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ter-u<SIZE><STYLE>.bdf

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where <SIZE> is 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28 or 32, and <STYLE> is n for normal

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(all sizes), b for bold (all sizes except 6x12) and v for EGA/VGA bold (8x14

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and 8x16 only, makes use of the eight character matrix column).

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1.4. Variants.

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Some characters are implemented in two variants. The alternate variants are

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on the font WEB page. To use a variant, download it and execute:

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zcat terminus-font-<VERSION>-<NAME>.diff.gz | patch -p1

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before installation. <VERSION> is the font version and <NAME> identifies the

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variant.

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1.5. Notes.

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The commands marked with $ can be executed by a regular user.

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The configure commands are optional.

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Almost all characters which are not part of the code pages listed above are

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available on X11/ISO10646-1 only (UTF+8/Unicode).

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2. Linux console.

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- sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 12x24, 10x20, 14x28 and 16x32

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- styles normal, bold, framebuffer-bold

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- code pages ISO8859-1/ISO8859-15/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2/Windows-1250,

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Windows-1251/ISO8859-5, ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-16,

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ISO8859-13/Windows-1257, IBM-437, Bulgarian-MIK, KOI8-R,

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KOI8-U, Paratype-PT154, combined

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- characters 582

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- format PC Screen Font (PSF) with unicode data

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2.1. consoletools.

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --psfdir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make psf

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# make install-psf

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The files are compressed with gzip and installed in DIRECTORY. If DIRECTORY

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does not exist, it is created. The default PREFIX is /usr. The default

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DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/consolefonts. Requires Perl.

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If you don't have mappings for Windows-1252/1250/1251/1254/1257, ISO8859-16,

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IBM-437, KOI8-R, Bulgarian-MIK or Paratype-PT154/PT254, also run:

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --acmdir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make txt

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# make install-acm

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The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/consoletrans. Requires awk.

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Uninstallation of the mappings is not supported. To load a font:

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$ consolechars [-m MAPPING] -f ter-<X><SIZE><STYLE>

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where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.2.4.

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2.2. kbd.

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$ ./configure [--psfdir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make psf

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# make install-psf

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where DIRECTORY should be either PREFIX/lib/kbd/consolefonts or

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PREFIX/share/kbd/consolefonts, depending on kbd version, and PREFIX is

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usually /usr. The missing mappings are installed with:

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --unidir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make txt

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# make install-uni

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The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/kbd/consoletrans. Requires awk. To

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load a font:

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$ setfont [-m MAPPING] ter-<X><SIZE><STYLE>

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where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.2.4.

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2.3. Quick reference.

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --psfdir=DIRECTORY | --ref=FILENAME]

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# make install-ref

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Installs the text from p.2.4. as FILENAME (the default is README.terminus)

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in DIRECTORY.

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2.4. Legend.

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names mappings covered codepage(s)

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ter-1* iso01, iso15, cp1252 ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15, Windows-1252

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ter-2* iso02, cp1250 ISO8859-2, Windows-1250

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ter-9* iso09, cp1254 ISO8859-9, Windows-1254

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ter-c* cp1251, iso05 Windows-1251, ISO8859-5

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ter-d* iso13, cp1257 ISO8859-13, Windows-1257

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ter-g* iso16 ISO8859-16

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ter-i* cp437 IBM-437

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ter-k* koi8r KOI8-R

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ter-m* mik Bulgarian-MIK

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ter-p* pt154 Paratype-PT154

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ter-u* koi8u KOI8-U

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ter-v* all listed above, all listed above, Paratype-PT254,

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pt254 etc. (if you Macintosh-Ukrainian, KOI8-U/E/F and

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have such mappings) IBM-852/855/866, 8 foreground colors

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names style

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ter-*n normal

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ter-*b bold

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2.5. Notes.

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The combined code page is based on IBM-437 (character 0xFF is ogonek).

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The ISO8859-16 font also includes all letters and accents from Windows-1250.

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The Linux kernel 2.4 framebuffers support widths 8, 12 and 16 only; kernel

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2.6 and a relevant framebuffer are required to use the other sizes.

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3. UNIX console.

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- sizes 8x14, 8x16

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- code pages ISO8859-1/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-5, ISO8859-9,

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ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-15, ISO8859-16,

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IBM-437, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, Paratype-PT154

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- characters 542

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- format raw data

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3.1. bsd-pcvt.

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --rawdir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make raw

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# make install.raw

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or, for file names with minus instead of period:

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# make install-raw

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The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/misc/pcvtfonts. The fonts are

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installed uncompressed. Requires Perl. To load a font:

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$ loadfont -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/ter-<X><STYLE>.8<SIZE>

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or, for file names with minus instead of period:

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$ loadfont -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/ter-<X><STYLE>-8x<SIZE>

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where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.3.2.

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3.2. Legend.

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names covered codepage(s)

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ter-1* ISO8859-1, Windows-1252

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ter-2* ISO8859-2

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ter-5* ISO8859-5

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ter-c* Windows-1251

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ter-d* ISO8859-13

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ter-f* ISO8859-15

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ter-i* IBM-437

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ter-u* KOI8-U

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names style

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ter-*n normal

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3.3. Notes.

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The RAW font contains data only and should be compatible with all UNIX

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systems. If any of the bold fonts doesn't look good try framebuffer-bold,

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or, if you are using an EGA/VGA adapter, program it to to clear column 8 of

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the character matrix (attribute controller register 0x10 bit 0x02).

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4. X11 Window System.

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- sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28 and 16x32

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- styles normal, bold

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- code pages ISO8859-1/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-5,

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ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-15, ISO8859-16,

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- format Portable Compiled Font (PCF)

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4.1. Installation.

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$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --x11dir=DIRECTORY]

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$ make pcf

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# make install-pcf

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The files are compressed with gzip and installed in DIRECTORY. If DIRECTORY

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does not exist, it is created. The default PREFIX is /usr. The default

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DIRECTORY is PREFIX/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local. Requires Perl and bdftopcf.

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Some X11 libraries and applications substitute the missing bold fonts by

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shifting the normal fonts. To avoid such substitution for 6x12, run:

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# make install-12b

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To update fonts.dir file in DIRECTORY after (un)installation, use:

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# make fontdir

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The configuration file which lists the font directories must contain

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DIRECTORY. If xfs or the X-server have been active during the installation,

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they should be restarted so the font list can be updated.

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See also mkfontdir(1), xorg.conf(5), xfs(1), xlsfonts(1) and fonts-conf(5).

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4.2. Notes.

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The ISO8859-1 and ISO8859-9 fonts contain the Windows Western characters and

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can be used as Windows-1252 and Windows-1254 respectively.

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5. Frequently Asked Questions.

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Q. Italic version?

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A. No. The quality is significantly lower, and preserving the font width

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requires overlapping characters, which are not handled very well by X11/Xft.

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If you need it than much, try mkitalic from FreeBSD or bdfslant from Debian.

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Q. Scalable version?

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A. Probably a TrueType font in 2006/7. No italic version will be included

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unless it is very easy to implement.

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Q. Win32 version?

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A. No, there are problems with the raster font codepages and sizes. You can

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try the pseudo-TrueType version by Eric Shao-yu Cheng.

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Q. How to create an italic version with mkitalic?

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A. Sorry, but I do not answer questions about mkitalic, bdfslant and the

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pseudo-TrueType version, neither to questions specific to a particular Linux

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distribution. Read the sources/documentation or write to the respective

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package maintainer.

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Q. How about some new characters?

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A. Fine, if they aren't very complex - but be ready to help. To make the new

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characters easily readable, I must have a very good idea what they should

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look like. The digits and most of the letters and punctuation characters

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that I'm familiar with are already included in the font, so your assistance

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will most probably be required for the new ones.

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Q. The bold 6x12 font...

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A. ...does not exist - see 4.1.

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Q. The font works in X11/Motif, but not in GNOME/KDE/Xfce.

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A. See fonts-conf(5).

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variant

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Q. The lowercase cyrillic k...

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A. ...has been fixed, and the previous (high) k is now a varianth.

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6. Bugs.

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Size 6x12, size 14x28 bold style and size 16x32 normal style are of worse

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quality than the others. Avoid them.

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The eth modifier should be based on curve not diagonal.

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Shha, Dje, Tshe, shha, dje tshe and may be wrong and/or font incompliant.

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The upper-P-part of Thorn in sizes 6x12 and 12x24 is not centered.

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The modifiers of Ghe middlehook, ghe middlehook, Eng and eng are mostly

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random.

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Several accents are implemented as combining accents, commaturnedmod is

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arbitary.

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7. Legal information.

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7.1. License.

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You can use and distribute this archive and the character varianths freely

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and without charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License version

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2.0 or (at your choice) any later version.

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7.2. Copyright.

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Terminus Font 4.20, Copyright (C) 2006 Dimitar Toshkov Zhekov.

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Report bugs to <jimmy@is-vn.bg>

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Thanks to Anton Zinoviev, Kir Koliushkin and all others who helped.

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