font size in vt

[Victor Sudakov]

Felix Friedlander wrote:
> > There is no such font on my 10.3 system:
> > 
> > # ls /usr/share/vt/fonts/
> > gallant.fnt             ter-u16n.fnt            vgarom-8x16.fnt
> > ter-u14b.fnt            ter-u16v.fnt            vgarom-8x8.fnt
> > ter-u14n.fnt            ter-u32b.fnt            vgarom-thin-8x16.fnt
> > ter-u14v.fnt            ter-u32n.fnt            vgarom-thin-8x8.fnt
> > ter-u16b.fnt            vgarom-8x14.fnt
> 
> Whoops, I forgot - it???s not in -RELEASE yet. You can download a
> copy of the HEX from
> https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/share/vt/fonts/vgarom-16x32.hex,
> and build it yourself if you like.
> 

This looks very good, thought a bit raggy.

> > 
> > (the ter-* fonts are my experiment with Terminus, none of them turned
> > out good enough).
> 
> I think I know where you???re going wrong with the terminus fonts. Try this way:
> 
> % vtfontcvt -w 16 -h 32 ter-u32n.bdf ter-u32b.bdf ter-u32.fnt
> 
> If this isn???t any better, let me know what the problem is, because
> I???m using that exact font quite happily.

And this is simply perfect. Thank you very much indeed, Felix!


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