NOTE: This directory contains the terminus font compiled to a JSON format.
Contents:
1. About.
1.1. Quick installation.
1.2. Legend.
1.3. Variants.
1.4. Notes.
2. Linux console.
2.1. consoletools.
2.2. kbd.
2.3. Quick reference.
2.4. Legend.
2.5. Notes.
3. UNIX console.
3.1. bsd-pcvt.
3.2. Legend.
3.3. Notes.
4. X11 Window System.
4.1. Installation.
4.2. Notes.
5. Frequently Asked Questions.
6. Legal information.
6.1. Licenses.
6.2. Copyright.
1. About.
This archive contains source code for generating and installing Terminus
Font for Linux console, BSD console and X11 Window System.
- version 4.39
- sizes 6x12, 8x14, 8x16, 10x18, 10x20, 11x22, 12x24, 14x28, 16x32
- styles normal, bold, EGA/VGA bold
- characters 891
- format Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) version 2.1
The character set covers about 120 language sets and supports ISO8859-1/2/5/
7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F, Esperanto and many IBM,
Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm
pseudographic characters.
1.1. Quick installation.
The commands:
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX]
$ make
# make install fontdir
compile and install the Linux console and X11 Window System fonts.
The default PREFIX is /usr/local.
1.2. Legend.
The file names are structured as follows:
ter-u<SIZE><STYLE>.bdf
where <SIZE> is the font height, 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).
1.3. Variants.
Some characters are implemented in two variants. To use the alternate
variant, execute:
$ patch -p1 -i alt/<NAME>.diff
before installation. See the font page for examples about the differences.
If you want to combine hi2 with dv1 and/or ka2, apply hi2 and then hi2-dv1
and/or hi2-ka2.
1.4. Notes.
The commands marked with $ can be executed by a regular user.
The configure commands are optional.
The make commands require GNU make.
A lot of characters are available only under X11/ISO10646-1 (UTF+8/Unicode).
Sizes 6x12, 11x22, 14x28-bold and 16x32-normal are worse than the others.
Avoid them.
210E and 210F are not italic.
2. Linux console.
- sizes all available, see "About"
- styles normal, bold, framebuffer-bold
- code pages ISO8859-1/ISO8859-15/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2/Windows-1250,
Windows-1251/ISO8859-5, ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-16,
ISO8859-7/Windows-1253, ISO8859-13/Windows-1257, IBM-437,
Bulgarian-MIK, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, Paratype-PT154, combined
- format PC Screen Font (PSF) with unicode data
2.1. consoletools.
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --psfdir=DIRECTORY]
$ make psf
# make install-psf
The files are compressed with gzip and installed in DIRECTORY. The default
DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/consolefonts. Requires Perl.
If you lack mappings for Windows-1252/1250/1251/1254/1253/1257, ISO8859-16,
IBM-437, KOI8-R, Bulgarian-MIK or Paratype-PT154/PT254, also run:
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --acmdir=DIRECTORY]
$ make txt
# make install-acm
The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/consoletrans. Requires awk.
Uninstallation of the mappings is not supported. To load a font:
$ consolechars [-m MAPPING] -f ter-<X><SIZE><STYLE>
where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.2.4.
2.2. kbd.
$ ./configure [--psfdir=DIRECTORY]
$ make psf
# make install-psf
where DIRECTORY should be either PREFIX/lib/kbd/consolefonts or
PREFIX/share/kbd/consolefonts, depending on kbd version. Missing mappings
are installed with:
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --unidir=DIRECTORY]
$ make txt
# make install-uni
The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/kbd/consoletrans. Requires awk. 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.
2.3. Quick reference.
The commands:
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --psfdir=DIRECTORY | --ref=FILENAME]
# make install-ref
install the text from p.2.4 as FILENAME (the default is README.terminus)
in DIRECTORY.
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-7* iso07, cp1253 ISO8859-7, Windows-1253
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 and many others (about 110
and many others language sets), 8 foreground colors
names style
ter-*n normal
ter-*b bold
ter-*f framebuffer-bold
2.5. Notes.
The combined code page is based on IBM-437 (character 0xFF is ogonek).
The ISO8859-16 font also includes all letters and accents from Windows-1250.
3. UNIX console.
- sizes 8x14 and 8x16 only
- styles normal, bold, framebuffer-bold
- code pages ISO8859-1/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-5, ISO8859-7,
ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-15, ISO8859-16,
Windows-1251, IBM-437, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, Paratype-PT154
- format raw data
3.1. bsd-pcvt.
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --rawdir=DIRECTORY]
$ make raw
# make install.raw
or, for file names with minus instead of period:
# make install-raw
The default DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/misc/pcvtfonts. The fonts are
installed uncompressed. Requires Perl. To load a font:
$ loadfont -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/ter-<X><STYLE>.8<SIZE>
or, for file names with minus instead of period:
$ loadfont -f /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts/ter-<X><STYLE>-8x<SIZE>
where <X> is a character identifying the code page as listed in p.3.2.
3.2. Legend.
names covered codepage(s)
ter-1* ISO8859-1, Windows-1252
ter-2* ISO8859-2
ter-5* ISO8859-5
ter-7* ISO8859-7
ter-9* ISO8859-9, Windows-1254
ter-c* Windows-1251
ter-d* ISO8859-13
ter-f* ISO8859-15
ter-g* ISO8859-16
ter-i* IBM-437
ter-k* KOI8-R
ter-p* Paratype-PT154
ter-u* KOI8-U
names style
ter-*n normal
ter-*b bold
ter-*f framebuffer-bold
3.3. Notes.
The RAW font contains data only and should be compatible with all UNIX
systems. If any of the bold fonts doesn't look good try framebuffer-bold,
or, if you are using an EGA/VGA adapter, program it to to clear column 8 of
the character matrix (attribute controller register 0x10 bit 0x02).
4. X11 Window System.
- sizes all available, see "About"
- styles normal, bold
- code pages ISO8859-1/Windows-1252, ISO8859-2, ISO8859-5, ISO8859-7,
ISO8859-9/Windows-1254, ISO8859-13, ISO8859-15, ISO8859-16,
Windows-1251, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, Paratype-PT154, ISO10646-1
- format Portable Compiled Font (PCF)
4.1. Installation.
$ ./configure [--prefix=PREFIX | --x11dir=DIRECTORY]
$ make pcf
# make install-pcf
The files are compressed with gzip and installed in DIRECTORY. The default
DIRECTORY is PREFIX/share/fonts/terminus. Requires Perl and bdftopcf.
A copy of the normal 6x12 font is installed as "bold", because some X11
libraries and applications substitute the missing bold fonts by shifting the
normal fonts, and others do not recognize the bold style at all if the
lowest font size lacks it. To install only the normal font, use "n12"
instead of "pcf" in the above commands.
To update the font cache in DIRECTORY after (un)installation, run:
# make fontdir
The configuration file which lists the font directories must contain
DIRECTORY. If xfs or the X-server were active during the installation, they
should be restarted so the font list can be updated.
4.2. Notes.
The ISO8859-1 and ISO8859-9 fonts contain the Windows Western characters and
can be used as Windows-1252 and Windows-1254 respectively.
5. Frequently Asked Questions.
Q. Italic version?
A. No. The quality is significantly lower, and preserving the font width
requires overlapping characters, which are not handled very well by X11/Xft.
If you need it than much, try mkitalic from FreeBSD or bdfslant from Debian.
Q. Scalable version?
A. Long story short, when the average display resolution becomes at least
150 DPI. Prefferably 200.
Q. How about some new characters?
A. Contact me and be ready to help.
Q. The bold 6x12 font...
A. ...does not exist, there is no space for a bold font in a 6x12 matrix.
However, the "normal" font is somewhere between.
Q. The font works in X11/Motif, but not in GNOME/KDE/Xfce.
A. Try adding 75-yes-terminus.conf to the Fontconfig configuration files.
See also mkfontscale(1), mkfontdir(1), fc-cache(1), xorg.conf(5), xfs(1),
xlsfonts(1), fonts-conf(5) etc.
6. Legal information.
6.1. Licenses.
Terminus Font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
The license is included as OFL.TXT, and is also available with a FAQ at:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
The files configure, configure.help, bdftopsf.pl and ucstoany.pl are
distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or (at your
choice) any later version.
6.2. Copyright.
Terminus Font 4.39, Copyright (C) 2014 Dimitar Toshkov Zhekov.
Report bugs to <dimitar.zhekov@gmail.com>
Thanks to Anton Zinoviev, Tim Allen, Kir Koliushkin, Antonios Galanopoulos
and all the others who helped.
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