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@@ -4,19 +4,22 @@ Unicode Basic Multilinguial Plane(BMP). The BMP is the first Unicode
for most of the world's modern scripts.
By default, the package will include precompiled versions of the font in
-TTF (TrueType), PCF (X Window bitmap) and PSF (console) formats. This can be
-changed using FONTFORMATS environment variable, which should be set to
-comma-separated list of font formats to include in the package.
+OTF (OpenType), TTF (TrueType), PCF (X Window bitmap), PSF (console) and
+OTB (OpenType Bitmap) formats. This can be changed using FONTFORMATS
+environment variable, which should be set to comma-separated list of
+font formats to be included in the package.
Available formats are:
+otf = OpenType
ttf = TrueType
pcf = X Window bitmap
psf = Console fonts
-otb = OpenType Bitmap fonts, compatible with recent versions of Pango which
- don't support PCF fonts. Fonts in this format are generated by
- converting precompiled PCF fonts using fonttosfnt tool.
+otb = OpenType Bitmap fonts, compatible with recent versions of Pango
+ which don't support BDF/PCF fonts. Fonts in this format are
+ generated by converting precompiled BDF/PCF fonts using fonttosfnt
+ tool.
-For example, setting FONTFORMATS=pcf,psf will include only PCF and PSF fonts.
-If FONTFORMATS variable is not set the default value "ttf,pcf,psf" is
-assumed.
+For example, setting FONTFORMATS=pcf,psf will include only PCF and PSF
+fonts in the package. If FONTFORMATS variable is not set then the
+default value "otf,ttf,pcf,psf,otb" is assumed.