Re: Favorite Font -- Unicode Test

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Favorite Font -- Unicode Test
Date	2025-04-14 14:22 +0000
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:19:05 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <vtiufq$175nh$2@dont-email.me>:

> Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
> 
>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:57:28 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Terminus handles all the above including this:
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>
>> I don't know.
>>
>> Terminus is a "funny" font.  It is distributed both as the traditional
>> X PCF (Portable Compiled Format) and as the OTB (Open Type Bitmap).
>>
>> In any case it is not TTF (True Type Font) or OTF (Open Type Font).  It
>> is an X bitmap font.
> 
> There is a Terminus TTF font, as well. There's 5 different terminus font
> packages in Debian Sid.  I just installed them all, and see this:
> 
> $ find  /usr/share/fonts/ -iname "*terminus*"
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold.otb
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-normal.otb
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold-oblique.otb
> /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-oblique.otb
> 
> Not sure which package installed the TTF version (the otb was the only
> one installed until now).

apt-file(1) is your friend. :)

$ apt-file search /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf
fonts-terminus: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terminus/TerminusTTF-4.46.0.ttf

$ apt-file search /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold.otb
fonts-terminus-otb: /usr/share/fonts/opentype/terminus/terminus-bold.otb

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