[Pkg-fonts-devel] UW ttyp0 - a multiscript monospaced bitmap font family

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Uwe Waldmann (2016-07-13 17:03:16)
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> writes:
> > > First step is to file an RFP: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l1 
> > > That can be done by anyone - also an enthusiastic user or upstream 
> > > themselves.
> > >
> > > When filed, the most efficient is to then refer to that bugreport, 
> > > every time discussing/encouraging its packaging for Debian.
> >
> > OK, I'll look into this. Unless someone else beats me to it, or Uwe 
> > wants to do it himself.
> 
> fine with me.
> 
> > > What I found that seemed reasonably active maintained and 
> > > comparative (i.e. not slashdot-style) was 
> > > https://github.com/powerline/fonts which doesn't even mention 
> > > tty0.
> 
> https://github.com/powerline/fonts started as a repository for fonts 
> *patched with powerline symbols*. It did not include fonts that came 
> with powerline symbols natively, such as ttyp0. But I see that they 
> now have included a pointer to InputMono, which also has native 
> powerline support, so perhaps the strategy has changed.

Thanks for that detail.  I found that page searching for ttyp0, so was 
puzzled it didn't then include it after all.


 - Jonas

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