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omnipotent

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[RESOLVED] what's the differents between terminus fonts?

hi, i installed terminus-font for console
what's the differents between these 16x32 fonts? thanks

ter-132b.psf.gz
ter-132n.psf.gz
ter-232b.psf.gz
ter-232n.psf.gz
ter-732b.psf.gz
ter-732n.psf.gz
ter-932b.psf.gz
ter-932n.psf.gz
ter-c32b.psf.gz
ter-c32n.psf.gz
...
ter-v32b.psf.gz
ter-v32n.psf.gz

Last edited by omnipotent (2015-07-02 02:44:50)

Trilby

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Re: [RESOLVED] what's the differents between terminus fonts?

Try the following for more details:

grep '^ter-[1-9a-z]32' /usr/share/misc/fonts.dir

You'll see two differences: one, 'b' fonts are bold, 'n' fonts are normal; and two, each of those has several different character encodings (I use iso10646).  You can also look up each of the encodings (eg, 10646 on wikipedia)

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Re: [RESOLVED] what's the differents between terminus fonts?

Read the README

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sergei_mipt

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Re: [RESOLVED] what's the differents between terminus fonts?

$ cat /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/README.Lat2-Terminus16

produces
...
1.3. Legend.

The file names are structured as follows:

ter-u<SIZE><STYLE>.bdf

where <SIZE> is 12, 14, 16, 20, 24, 28 or 32, and <STYLE> is n for normal
(all sizes), b for bold (all sizes except 6x12) and v for EGA/VGA bold (8x14
and 8x16 only, makes use of the eight character matrix column).

...

To
load a font:

$ setfont [-m MAPPING] ter-<X><SIZE><STYLE>

where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.2.4.
...
2.4. Legend.

names   mappings                covered codepage(s)

ter-1*  iso01, iso15, cp1252    ISO8859-1, ISO8859-15, Windows-1252
ter-2*  iso02, cp1250           ISO8859-2, Windows-1250
ter-9*  iso09, cp1254           ISO8859-9, Windows-1254
ter-c*  cp1251, iso05           Windows-1251, ISO8859-5
ter-d*  iso13, cp1257           ISO8859-13, Windows-1257
ter-g*  iso16                   ISO8859-16
ter-i*  cp437                   IBM-437
ter-k*  koi8r                   KOI8-R
ter-m*  mik                     Bulgarian-MIK
ter-p*  pt154                   Paratype-PT154
ter-u*  koi8u                   KOI8-U
ter-v*  all listed above,       all listed above, Paratype-PT254,
        pt254 etc. (if you      Macintosh-Ukrainian, KOI8-U/E/F and
        have such mappings)     IBM-852/855/866, 8 foreground colors

names   style

ter-*n  normal
ter-*b  bold
ter-*f  framebuffer-bold

2ManyDogs

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Re: [RESOLVED] what's the differents between terminus fonts?

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