+Source: xfonts-traditional
+Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
+Section: x11
+Priority: optional
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0
+Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, debhelper (>=8), po-debconf
+
Package: xfonts-traditional
-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf
+Architecture: all
+Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
Description: Traditional fixed-with fonts for X
Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts.
.
These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name
"trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier
versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes:
- - balanced ` and '
- - less tall [ ] ( ) { }
- - centred *
- - high ~
- - traditional appearance of lower case a
+ - balanced ` '
+ - less tall [ ] ( ) { }
+ - centred *
+ - high ~
+ - slightly higher &
+ - traditional appearance of W a
.
These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character
set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the
.
(This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data;
rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for
- each font you have installed.)
+ each relevant font you have installed.)