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 744921384B4 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 19:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 14A2521C0C7; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 19:20:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.web-xs.org (mail.web-xs.org [148.251.4.204]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEEE521C0A3 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 19:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C90F6EC3365 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 20:20:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.web-xs.org Received: from mail.web-xs.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.web-xs.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xuz5LN7+SkIs for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 20:20:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from server-1.localdomain (p54A71159.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.167.17.89]) (Authenticated sender: lukas@der-erste-sinn.de) by mail.web-xs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CBBC06EC335B for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 20:20:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from hal9000.localdomain (hal.localdomain [192.168.0.2]) by server-1.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E21C591 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2015 14:48:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 20:19:30 +0100 From: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited Message-ID: <20151203201930.482091cb@hal9000.localdomain> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7cb6aa06-2e66-4c47-b1e8-fda05d9f8495 X-Archives-Hash: 45fd41db32616d0c4d94cb58799ff742 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no > > diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an > > eight too closely. > > It's horrible, isn't it? > > > At the time I said I'd found a font editor called nafe, which had > > allowed me to delete the offending bar. At the time I was prepared > > to put up with all ASCII line characters being shown as ? marks - > > as used in many ncurses applications like the kernel menuconfig. I > > assume the editor had truncated the font file. > > > Today I've revisited the problem and I've found a GTK font editor > > in the portage tree which has allowed me to do a proper job. It's > > x11-misc/gbdfed, which is simplicity itself to run. I wish I'd > > found it the first time! I'm a happy bunny now. > > I found another way of editing these fonts: media-gfx/psf-tools. In > particular, it contains psf2txt, which converts a font to a readable > and editable representation, and txt2psf which converts the text file > back into a font. > > 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. > > > 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 ..... I'm using "Droid Sans Mono Slashed" as base font and for my eyes, its slashed zero doesn't look like an eight. But if you don't like the slash, there is also a "Droid Sans Mono Dotted" and also a plain "Droid Sans Mono" without any "0-Extensions". There is another monotype font that is maybe interesting for you. It's called "Source Code Pro". But be warned, it has a dotted zero. ;-) -- Regards wabe