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diff --git a/system/univga-font/README b/system/univga-font/README index 24d1e95626e51..10e0670927840 100644 --- a/system/univga-font/README +++ b/system/univga-font/README @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ 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. |