Hi Bjørn (and Uwe and others), Quoting Bjørn Mork (2016-07-13 13:43:38) > uwe@mpi-inf.mpg.de writes: > > I have released a new series of monospaced bitmap fonts. They cover > > most of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet, Greek, Armenian, Georgian > > (only Mkhedruli), Hebrew (without cantillation marks), Thai, most of > > IPA (but no UPA), standard punctuation, common symbols, some > > mathematics, line graphics and a few dingbats (about 3000 Unicode > > characters). There are nine sizes from 11px to 22px in regular and > > bold; in some sizes there is also an italic version. > > > > The license is an MIT license with name change clause similar to the > > Bitstream Vera License (a bit more permissive, actually). > > > > The source code (including documentation) and some font samples can > > be found at http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~uwe/misc/uw-ttyp0/. If you > > are interested in including UW ttyp0 in Debian, drop me a note. [...] > I found this email from back in Aug 2012 and wonder what happened > here? Did it just fall through the cracks? Or was there just a > resource problem - someone needs to do the packaging work? Or was > there something else that made this request go unanswered? As I recall, I was not part of this team back then. My guess is that there was simply noone stepping up to do the work involved. First step is to file an RFP: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1 That can be done by anyone - also an enthusiastic user or upstream themselves. When filed, the most efficient is to then refer to that bugreport, every time discussing/encouraging its packaging for Debian. > In my opinion, UW ttyp0 is the best monospaced bitmap font family out > there. And I'm not alone in that view, since I foud it by googling for > good font recommendations. Could you please share some URLs supporting that research of yours? What I found that seemed reasonably active maintained and comparative (i.e. not slashdot-style) was https://github.com/powerline/fonts which doesn't even mention tty0. I don't mean to conclude that tty0 is not interesting - it seems it is particularly useful when needing small sizes and large coverage (especially the latter rarely emphasized in my experience). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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