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Even for the new PSF fonts it is not wise to use a single BDF source. Many of
the BDF fonts share a common look. For example the X font fixed
was used by Roman Czyborra in order to create his unifont.bdf.
The same font was used also by Electronic Font Open Laboratory for their
h16.bdf and by the former Electrotechnical Laboratory (now
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science Technology, Japan) for their
etl16-unicode.bdf font.
The targets FONTFACE-BDFS in the Makefile
specify the BDF fonts to use in order to generate the PSF font fonts. For
example the combination "unifont.bdf + h16.bdf +
etl16-unicode.bdf" is used for the Fixed16 font face. The
fonts listed first take precedence, so it is wise to list first the fonts which
symbols look better and not the fonts with more symbols.
The bdf directory contains almost all free BDF fonts that can be
used to generate console fonts. Currently they allow to generate fonts from
the following font faces: Fixed13, Fixed14, Fixed15, Fixed16, Fixed18,
Fixed24x12, FixedBold13, FixedBold14, FixedBold15, FixedBold16, FixedBold18,
FixedBold24x12, FixedOblique13, Terminus12x6, Terminus14, Terminus16,
Terminus24x12, Terminus20x10, Terminus28x14, Terminus32x16, TerminusBold12x6,
TerminusBold14, TerminusBold16, TerminusBold20x10, TerminusBold24x12,
TerminusBold28x14, TerminusBold32x16, TerminusBoldVGA14, TerminusBoldVGA16,
Courier13, Courier14, Courier15, Courier16, CourierBold13, CourierBold14,
CourierBold15, Lucid12, Lucid13, Lucid15, Lucid16, Lucid22x12, Lucid29x16,
LucidBold11, LucidBold13, LucidBold15, LucidBold16, LucidBold22x12,
LucidBold29x16, Goha12, Goha14, Goha16, GohaClassic12, GohaClassic14 and
GohaClassic16.
The targets in the Makefile are able to generate a PSF font for
every CHARSET-FONTFACE combination. The
build target however will generate fonts only for the
"good" combinations.
First, the program fontcodesets is used to determine which
charsets a particular font face supports. The result is stored in the file
soft.Makefile where the variable PSF_FONTS is defined
and it is directly included in the main Makefile. Use the target
soft.Makefile in order to update this file (this doesn't happen
automatically).
Second, some of the font faces are not generated because they do not look very
attractive on the console (certainly the choice is a personal opinion). Only
the following font faces are approved: Fixed13, Fixed14, Fixed15, Fixed16,
Fixed18, Terminus12x6, Terminus14, Terminus16, Terminus24x12, Terminus20x10,
Terminus28x14, Terminus32x16, TerminusBold12x6, TerminusBold14, TerminusBold16,
TerminusBold20x10, TerminusBold24x12, TerminusBold28x14, TerminusBold32x16,
TerminusBoldVGA14, TerminusBoldVGA16, Goha12, Goha14, Goha16, GohaClassic12,
GohaClassic14 and GohaClassic16. See the GOOD_PSF_FONTS variable
in the Makefile.
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The Hackers Guide for console-setup
Anton Zinovievanton@lml.bas.bg