Bug#595696: Bug#594817: console-setup should configure the width&height of the console

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:20:46PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Samuel Thibault, le Sun 29 Aug 2010 21:08:05 +0200, a écrit :
> >   We could even imagine to
> >   rasterize a vector font on the fly for very big sizes.
> 
> otf2bdf and bdf2psf could be used for that, for instance if the user
> specifies the width (which will be the most probable use, people usually

I am afraid of such automatic conversion.  There are too many 
combinations which can easily lead to many undiscovered bugs... I'd 
prefer if we use otf2bdf and bdf2psf manually in order to add a few new 
fonts in the source package of console-setup.

BTW, the number of symbols per line is not enough in order to chose the 
proper font.  For example on a wide screen I prefer to use somewhat 
smaller font (say size 22 or 24) and to limit the number of characters 
using 'stty cols 80' (that is SCREEN_WIDTH=80 in /etc/default/c-s).  
Otherwise, there are too few rows on the screen.

I am considering a Debconf question about the screen width.  In my 
opinion only the following options are useful:

40 cols: for braile displays (is there a way to autodetect these?)
80 cols: I use this most of the time
max: for reading log files

Anton Zinoviev