From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 28: bitmap fonts, vector font character spacing Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:53:57 +0200 Message-ID: <878rajuewq.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <871qgx72h7.fsf@drac> <3283828c97372cca65a0@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17350"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kEiiUPG16QigH5qta6jIvG4hBQQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 10 17:23:28 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qU7VY-0004H8-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:23:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qU7VN-0000WN-Ko; Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:23:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qU73E-0002Ij-UB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qU73D-000338-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qU739-00061O-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:54:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 11:23:15 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144731 Archived-At: Gregory Heytings wrote: >> As strange as it sounds, after staring at Terminus for >> a couple of hours on most days for many years I grew >> attached to it... > > You can still use it, you just need to install a vectorized > version of that font (available here: > https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/), and use "Terminus > (TTF)" as the font name. What's wrong with Terminus? I've used that since a long time. The only thing I don't like is that the m looks too close to an n ... To use Terminus in a Linux VT, unless it is on by default, install packages console-setup and console-setup-linux from the Debian repos, then do $ sudo chmod +s /bin/setfont and now you can set the font like this $ setfont Lat7-TerminusBold24x12 More: https://dataswamp.org/~incal/conf/vt/console-setup -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal