On 10/04/2025 19:02, Alex Myczko wrote:
Hi PaulWell mostly the fonts- packages install vector fonts of formats ttf or otf.The setfont command and your configure thing uses fonts from the package console-setup-linux,mostly compressed pcf font format (bitmap). Try dpkg -L console-setup-linux to see some fonts.
But this is exactly the point I'm trying to make. Spleen *is* a console font (the package description says "monospace font for consoles and terminals", and the file list - https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/fonts-spleen/filelist - shows compressed psfu files, compressed pcf files alongside the otf files).
Maybe this bug needs to be reassigned to console-setup-linux if the only way for developers to distribute console fonts is to extend the console-setup-linux package, but it feels like it would be a more flexible system if one could install extra packages of fonts and see them appear in the choice.
As an analogy, notice that people can install, say "fonts-dejavu" and the DejaVu fonts appear in tools such as fc-list. You don't find all the possible fonts getting packaged in "fontconfig". In a similar way, as an end user, I would expect to be able to install fonts-spleen, or fonts-ubuntu-console, and then be able to pick them by reconfiguring the console.
Your best bet to cread pcf fonts are packages like: bitsnpicas and psftools (not packaged officially),but grab a copy from: http://bananas.debian.net/debian/psftools/ Best, Alex
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