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author B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2020-12-07 01:20:13 -0500
committer Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2020-12-12 07:09:26 +0700
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system/univga-font: Add PCF and OTB support.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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univga-font (unicode terminal font)
UNI-VGA is a Unicode VGA font for X11 and console. It is primarily
-intended to be the single source of fonts for console and for XDosEmu.
+intended to be the single source of fonts for console and for MS-DOS
+emulators.
One of the aims while creating the font was its internal consistency.
For example, accented glyphs shouldn't differ too much from unaccented
-ones, as it was in original IBM's VGA font. It also allowed to
-render Latin Extended Additional glyphs with two accents, which was
+ones, as it was in original IBM's VGA font. It also allows rendering
+Latin Extended Additional glyphs with two accents, which was
impossible with IBM's accents' size.
X11 calls the font:
@@ -14,7 +15,16 @@ X11 calls the font:
...and an alias called "univga" is added, so you can say e.g.:
xterm -fn univga
+In most applications' font pickers, the font is just "VGA".
+
Also 3 varieties of the font are installed for use with
the Linux console: AsianCyr-vga-8x16, WinCyr-vga-8x16, and
UniCyrX-vga-8x16. They can be used in /etc/rc.d/rc.font, but won't
show up in the setconsolefont menu.
+
+By default, the BDF (old style X bitmap), PSF (Linux console), and
+OTB (new style Pango/Harfbuzz bitmap) fonts are installed. If you for
+some reason need it, you can also install the PCF (portable compiled
+X font) version, with PCF=yes in the environment. You can also set
+BDF=no, PSF=no, and/or OTB=no, if you want to omit one or more of
+these font types. Setting all 4 variables to "no" is an error, though.