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diff --git a/system/univga-font/README b/system/univga-font/README index 8550419cbf..a5e814d8e5 100644 --- a/system/univga-font/README +++ b/system/univga-font/README @@ -1,17 +1,33 @@ 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 impossible with -IBM's accents' size. +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 allows rendering +Latin Extended Additional glyphs with two accents, which was +impossible with IBM's accents' size. -X11 calls the font "-bolkhov-vga-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1" -and an alias called "univga" is added, so you can say e.g. "xterm -fn univga". +X11 calls the font: + -bolkhov-vga-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 +...and an alias called "univga" is added, so you can say e.g.: + xterm -fn univga -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. +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. + +This package also includes bdf2psf.pl, which converts X bitmap fonts +to console fonts. |