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Paul Hartman posted on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:24:50 -0600 as excerpted: |
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> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> I have a bitmap font, console16x8 and the short/fat version, |
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>> console8x8, pcf format, from back in my Mandrake days. Unfortunately, |
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>> google isn't of much help in finding a current package with it |
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>> included, partly because a search on console font yields all sorts of |
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>> hits on fonts for the console, not /the/ (obviously in hindsight |
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>> unfortunately named) console font! That said, it /does/ seem the font |
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>> was part of the kde3 konsole package for many years (but is not part of |
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>> the konsole4 package). |
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>> Before I go creating my own ebuild for it, I thought I'd ask if anyone |
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>> knows a current package containing it. The files will be |
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>> console16x8.pcf (perhaps with the .gz extension added, if compressed) |
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>> and console8x8.pcf. |
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> Perhaps you're looking for sys-apps/kbd which (on my system) contains a |
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> load of consolefonts. |
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Yes it does, but none of them is actually the font /named/ console, the |
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one I'm looking for. |
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And FWIW, that's precisely the problem I came up trying to google the |
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thing too -- I get all sorts of hits for console fonts (with other |
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names), but not /the/ "console" font! The only way I figured to sort |
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that out was to google the filename, console16x8.pcf, but while that did |
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come up with a reasonable number of hits, even most of those are false- |
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negatives in terms of actually figuring out what package it is, as |
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they're mostly font-trouble posts that happen to list that font among |
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others -- they're hits on general font issues, not on the "console" |
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font. And the few I /did/ find... were kde3 era konsole package, which |
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apparently did used to contain it, tho the kde4 era package does not. |
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But thanks for the reply. You tried! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |