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mkrules: Handle multiple files with the same metrics.
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1Source: xfonts-traditional
2Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
3Section: x11
4Priority: optional
5Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0
2f5169a1 6Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, debhelper (>=8), po-debconf
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9a3a90e1 8Package: xfonts-traditional
1b17f3ec 9Architecture: all
489ffe21 10Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
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11Description: Traditional fixed-with fonts for X
12 Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
13 .
14 These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name
15 "trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier
16 versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes:
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17 - balanced ` '
18 - less tall [ ] ( ) { }
19 - centred *
20 - high ~
21 - slightly higher &
22 - traditional appearance of W a
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23 .
24 These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character
25 set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
26 backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000
27 documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render
28 correctly.
29 .
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30 Optionally, this package will edit your system configuration to make
31 the default fonts used by xterm refer to the traditional font.
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32 .
33 (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
34 rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for
12fa1ef8 35 each relevant font you have installed.)