Re: Please, not more font packages

[Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>]

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Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I demand that Roger Leigh may or may not have written...
>
>> Carlos Laviola <carlos.laviola@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:29:21 +0200, Michelle Konzack
>>> <linux4michelle@freenet.de> wrote:
>>>> Oh yes, does anyone know a fontcreator for the console-fonts ?
>>> $ apt-cache search console font
>>> cfe - Console Font Editor
>>> fonter - Interactive font editor for the console
>
>> But... are there any that can edit PSF fonts larger than 8x16 and/or allow
>> editing of the unimap/sfm?
>
> fonty-dev /may/ be of help - it contains psf2sbf and sbf2psf, which convert
> between PSF and plain-text source.

The SBF format looks like it can cope with arbitrarily-sized glyphs.
It also references the glyphs by their UCS id, and can handle
fallbacks.  I'll take a closer look at it--it looks like it might be
quite useful.

Thanks for pointing it out!
Roger

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