1 Package: xfonts-traditional
2 Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf
3 Description: Traditional fixed-with fonts for X
4 Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
6 These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name
7 "trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier
8 versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes:
10 - less tall [ ] ( ) { }
13 - traditional appearance of lower case a
15 These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character
16 set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
17 backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000
18 documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render
21 Optionally, this package will edit your configuration to make the
22 default font "fixed" refer to the traditional font.
24 (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
25 rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for
26 each font you have installed.)