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 ` '
- traditional appearance of W a
.
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
+ 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.)