Fonts -Diff-


Wed Jul 29 15:50:51 EDT 2009, quanstro

BITMAP FONTS

The screen font can be changed at startup by changing the font variable in $home/lib/profile.

/lib/font/bit/:

TROFF FONTS

troff(1) actually only cares about how wide each character is. This is a list of fonts for which it knows that.

These files can be generated with buildtables.

/sys/lib/troff/font/devutf/:

(This list was list was generated with invfo.rc.)

GHOSTSCRIPT FONTS

/sys/lib/ghostscript/font/:

POSTSCRIPT FONTS

PostScript fonts may be embeded in a document by piping it through aux/download.

aux/download -f -H/sys/lib/postscript/font -mfontmap

/sys/lib/postscript/font/:

ANTIALIASED FONTS

You can use the Code2000, Cyberbit and Vera, TrueType fonts to get a nicer look on Rio and Acme. Erik has provided the following instructions on the 9fans mailing list (updated):

	9fs sources
	contrib/install quanstro/vera
	font=/lib/font/bit/vera/unicode.12.font rio

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