X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=debian%2Fcontrol;h=5a4985f44a7af7ec50de74cd0792c3edc5609f23;hb=0903e113b2e3a28a901f77e56d21868995ecb5b2;hp=b34d44799687457e13f3f4f9a20ca19f39c1c4dd;hpb=51f936cff73344e45074614799cd1ffcb2a62ec4;p=xfonts-traditional.git diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b34d447..5a4985f 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ Maintainer: Ian Jackson Section: x11 Priority: optional Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0 -Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, debhelper (>=8), po-debconf +Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, debhelper (>=8), po-debconf, fontforge Package: xfonts-traditional Architecture: all Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, libsys-cpu-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} -Description: traditional fixed-width fonts for X - This package provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts. +Description: Traditional fixed-width fonts for X + Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts. . - These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name + These are a set of fonts (including 6x13 "fixed"), with foundry name "trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes: - balanced ` ' @@ -20,16 +20,20 @@ Description: traditional fixed-width fonts for X - high ~ - slightly higher & - traditional appearance of W a + - in 10x20, versions of ; : , . matching ` ' and each other . These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character - set, as UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the - backquote and some other characters. With these fonts, pre-2000 + set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the + backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000 documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render correctly. . - Optionally, this package will edit the system's configuration to make + Additionally, we provide ASCII-compatible versions of several Neep + fonts (replacing "jmk" with "trad.jmk" in the foundry name). + . + Optionally, this package will edit your system configuration to make the default fonts used by xterm refer to the traditional font. . - This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data; + (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data; rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for - each relevant font that's installed. + each relevant font you have installed.)