| 1 | Package: xfonts-traditional |
| 2 | Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf |
| 3 | Description: Traditional fixed-with fonts for X |
| 4 | Provides "traditional" versions of fixed-width fonts. |
| 5 | . |
| 6 | These are a set of 6x13 fonts (including "fixed"), with foundry name |
| 7 | "trad" instead of "misc", with several glyphs replaced with earlier |
| 8 | versions from before Markus Kuhn's changes: |
| 9 | - balanced ` and ' |
| 10 | - less tall [ ] ( ) { } |
| 11 | - centred * |
| 12 | - high ~ |
| 13 | - traditional appearance of lower case a |
| 14 | . |
| 15 | These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character |
| 16 | set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the |
| 17 | backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000 |
| 18 | documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render |
| 19 | correctly. |
| 20 | . |
| 21 | Optionally, this package will edit your configuration to make the |
| 22 | default font "fixed" refer to the traditional font. |
| 23 | . |
| 24 | (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data; |
| 25 | rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for |
| 26 | each font you have installed.) |