From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5351384B4 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:03:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9955921C03C; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59847E08D3 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1a4nCe-0000Yb-Al for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:03:00 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:02:59 +0000 Message-ID: <1893427.zLYdoBPIus@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.1.12-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20151203183802.GH2136@acm.fritz.box> References: <72479272.Iazj106paV@wstn> <20151203183802.GH2136@acm.fritz.box> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost03a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 3fae6736-03ea-4e7b-abcc-0b86678fdcbe X-Archives-Hash: 9ec3ddb3ed8a2ba3b30817aa755ace25 On Thursday 03 December 2015 18:38:02 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I spent quite a long time playing with these programs back in September, > getting rid of that blasted zero stroke. Trouble was, if I got rid of > the whole stroke, it looked too much like a capital o, and if I got rid > of just the middle bit, there was a sort of "shadow S" going through the > whole character. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just an update in case anyone's interested. > > And from me: somehow, in the end, I never got round to installing any of > the fonts I so painfully crafted. So I am still stuck with that nasty > slash through the zero. One of these days, maybe ..... Ah, but I also made the zero narrower. I noticed that the original was asymmetrical, with a single column of empty pixels down the left side but two down the right. So I just shifted the left part of the character over by one pixel, which necessitated shortening the top and bottom by that amount. Et voila! Easily distinguished eight, zero and capital O, and aesthetically quite pleasing, to boot. It only took a couple of minutes. A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the whole hog. -- Rgds Peter