> Where can I get more information related to the screen fonts used by Linux
> to display text on the console? If I set a font say t.fnt on my machine,
> how is it possible (if at all) to use the same font on some machine which
> is telnetting into my machine?
kbd-utils (Primary-site: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus
373k kbd-0.94.tar.gz)
[for more fonts:
sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Keyboards/kbd_fonts.tar.gz]
(warning - I haven't checked these links...)
It is NOT possible to have that font show up on a telnet session (not
unless someone changes the font upload/download code so it can go through
telnet <hint hint> :)
> What I am mainly interested is the formats of the various fonts i.e. the
> .fnt, .psf (is it postscript),.cp etc. ? Is it possible to convert fonts
> in metafont to the consolefonts? are any utilities available?
IIRC, X apparently wipes out the font settings....
The format of a .PSF file is as follows: (from kbd_utils)
Byte Size of field Contents
0 Word File ID, always 0436h
2 Byte File mode
=== FILE MODE 0: 256 character byte-aligned monofont (as used by EGA/VGA)
3 Byte Height of characters in scan lines
4... 256x[byte 3] bytes Font data; each character contains one byte
per scan line, characters continuous
=== FILE MODE 1: 512 character byte-aligned monofont
3 Byte Height of characters in scan lines
4... 512x[byte 3] bytes Font data; each character contains one byte
per scan line, characters continuous
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G'day, eh?
- Teunis