On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:36:07PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2020/01/06 16:14, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:02:47PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2020/01/06 09:28, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > since pango 1.44 update (?) pcf fonts arent supported anymore
> > > > apparently, so any vte-based terminal cant use terminus or spleen font
> > > > anmore. So here's a quick port for a TTF version of terminus from
> > > > https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/ which works for me in
> > > > xfce4-terminal.
> > > >
> > > > Landry
> > >
> > > I'd be much happier to do some conversion in the terminus port itself
> > > so we can have the various flavours .. Looks like it might be something
> > > along these lines
> > >
> > > fonttosfnt -c -g 2 -m 2 -o terminusn.otb ter-u*n.pcf
> > > fonttosfnt -c -g 2 -m 2 -o terminusb.otb ter-u*b.pcf
> >
> > i'd also be much happier with such a thing, but i have no idea what an
> > otb font is nor which support gtk+3 has for it :) as long as i can have
> > terminus in vte terms..
> >
>
> otb is "OpenType bitmap-only" and there is support for this in harfbuzz/pango.
>
> More testing definitely needed but this is what I currently have:
works for me once i added ${FONTDIR}-otb to the ${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} line
in do-install, many thanks for this !
fwiw the 'update your font path' msg seems useless for gtk only use, no
need to mess with xset +fp to directly find the new font in the gtk font
chooser.
ok for me.
Landry
