Hello, Peter. On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list,
> Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no diagonal > bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an eight too closely. It's horrible, isn't it? > At the time I said I'd found a font editor called nafe, which had allowed me > to delete the offending bar. At the time I was prepared to put up with all > ASCII line characters being shown as ? marks - as used in many ncurses > applications like the kernel menuconfig. I assume the editor had truncated > the font file. > Today I've revisited the problem and I've found a GTK font editor in the > portage tree which has allowed me to do a proper job. It's x11-misc/gbdfed, > which is simplicity itself to run. I wish I'd found it the first time! I'm a > happy bunny now. I found another way of editing these fonts: media-gfx/psf-tools. In particular, it contains psf2txt, which converts a font to a readable and editable representation, and txt2psf which converts the text file back into a font. I spent quite a long time playing with these programs back in September, getting rid of that blasted zero stroke. Trouble was, if I got rid of the whole stroke, it looked too much like a capital o, and if I got rid of just the middle bit, there was a sort of "shadow S" going through the whole character. > Just an update in case anyone's interested. And from me: somehow, in the end, I never got round to installing any of the fonts I so painfully crafted. So I am still stuck with that nasty slash through the zero. One of these days, maybe ..... > -- > Rgds > Peter -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
