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1. About.
1.1. Quick installation.
1.2. Recommended modes.
1.3. Legend.
1.4. Variants.
1.5. Notes.
2. Linux console.
2.1. consoletools.
2.2. kbd.
2.3. Quick reference.
2.4. Legend.
2.5. Notes.
3. UNIX console.
3.1. bsd-pcvt.
3.2. Legend.
3.3. Notes.
4. X11 Window System.
4.1. Installation.
4.2. Notes.
5. Frequently Asked Questions.
6. Bugs.
7. Legal information.
7.1. License.
7.2. Copyright.
1. About.
This archive contains source code for generating and installing Terminus
Font for Linux console, UNIX console and X11 Window System.
- version 4.20
- sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x20, 12x24, 14x28, 16x32
- styles normal, bold, EGA/VGA bold
- code pages ISO10646-1
- characters 690
- format Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) version 2.1
The character set covers ISO8859-1/2/5/9/13/15/16, IBM-437/852/855/866,
Windows-1250/1251/1252/1254/1257, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Paratype-PT154/PT254,
Bulgarian-MIK, Macintosh-Ukrainian, Esperanto and many others (a total of
about 110 language sets). Also included are the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm
pseudographic characters.
1.1. Quick installation.
The commands:
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX]
$ make
# make install
compile and install the Linux console and X11 Window System fonts, and
# make fontdir
updates fonts.dir for X11 (if you don't know what fonts.dir is, execute the
command).
1.2. Recommended modes.
Obviously, the larger and better a monitor is, the higher modes (with the
respective rates) can be used, and the more text may fit on the screen while
remaining comfortably readable - and vice versa. As a comparison base, it is
considered normal to use 640x480 and 800x600 modes with font size 8x16 and
10x20 respectively (that is, 80 columns by 30 lines) on 14" and 15" CRT
monitors.
Use modes that match your display ratio. Most personal computer monitors are
4:3, so use 1280x960 (4:3) instead of 1280x1024 (5:4) if possible. The
EGA/VGA text modes are 720x400 (9:5), but the font (i.e. sizes 8x14 and
8x16) is designed to work with them.
1.3. Legend.
The file names are structured as follows:
ter-u