From: Ben Harris <bjh21@bjh21.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 15:44:23 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Rewrite Debian package description to be more helpful
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Rewrite Debian package description to be more helpful
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0250a82..afe2336 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,17 +11,18 @@ Package: fonts-bedstead
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}
-Description: monospace fonts inspired by SAA5050 character generator
- Bedstead is a family of outline fonts based on the characters
- produced by the Mullard SAA5050 series of Teletext Character
- Generators. The SAA5050 is familiar to those of a certain age as the
- chip that produced the MODE 7 display on the BBC Microcomputer. It
- generates characters from a 5 × 9 pixel matrix, smoothing diagonal
- lines to produce an interlaced 10 × 18 matrix for each
- character. Bedstead extends that algorithm to continuity, converting
- a 5 × 9 pixel grid into an outline with smooth diagonals.
+Description: monospaced fonts inspired by SAA5050 character generator
+ Bedstead is a family of angular monospaced fonts based on the
+ characters produced by the Mullard SAA5050 series of Teletext
+ Character Generators.  The SAA5050 fonts were bitmaps, but Bedstead
+ extends its smoothing algorithm to continuity, producing something
+ suitable for modern high-resolution displays.
  .
  Bedstead includes all the character designs from the SAA5050 and its
  various sister chips, including Cyrillic and Hebrew alphabets. It
  also has a large number of custom-designed glyphs, all of them of
- course based on the same 5 × 9 pixel grid.
+ following the same design rules as the originals.
+ .
+ This package contains the OpenType font files for Bedstead in two
+ weights (medium and bold) and six widths (ultra condensed, extra
+ condensed, condensed, semi condensed, normal, and extended).