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completenewbie
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 Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:32 pm Post subject: Correct way to install additional console fonts |
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I need console font that supports cyrillic and some additional characters, like specific quotation marks, horizontal ellipsis and em dash.
Fonts that are installed with stage tarball are either incomplete or just ugly.
I tried to search console fonts in portages (simply with —search), but nothing appropriate was found. So I found good fonts in ubuntu, and want to use them. Can I just put them in /usr/share/consolefonts (I think it makes system dirty), or better keep them separately (/usr/local/share/consolefonts), or maybe there already are portages that provide theese fonts, but I don't know how to find them?
I've found that almost any of Uni3- 16px fonts from ubuntu are suitable for me. What I need to install them not making system dirty? |
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comprookie2000
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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Would these work:
http://unifoundry.com/
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eix unifont
[I] media-fonts/unifont
Available versions: 1.0-r4!b!s (~)5.1.20080914 {X}
Installed versions: 5.1.20080914(12:26:12 AM 04/30/2010)(X)
Homepage: http://unifoundry.com/
Description: GNU Unifont - a Pan-Unicode X11 bitmap iso10646 font
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also you may want to make sure you are using utf-8
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
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completenewbie
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't need X11 font, but the description says it is for X11 |
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Logicien
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Have you try to make a search in Portage with the Ubuntu package(s) name(s) of the fonts you would like to have with Gentoo?
| Code: | | dpkg -S the-path-of-the-font |
will tell a package name.
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