| 1 | Source: xfonts-traditional |
| 2 | Maintainer: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
| 3 | Section: x11 |
| 4 | Priority: optional |
| 5 | Standards-Version: 3.9.2.0 |
| 6 | Build-Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Package: xfonts-traditional |
| 9 | Architecture: all |
| 10 | Depends: xfonts-utils, pcf2bdf |
| 11 | Description: 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: |
| 17 | - balanced ` and ' |
| 18 | - less tall [ ] ( ) { } |
| 19 | - centred * |
| 20 | - high ~ |
| 21 | - traditional appearance of lower case a |
| 22 | . |
| 23 | These changes make the fonts compatible with the US-ASCII character |
| 24 | set. (UTF-8 is not compatible with ASCII in its usage of the |
| 25 | backquote and some other characters.) With these fonts, pre-2000 |
| 26 | documents (including ASCII art and GNU manuals) will render |
| 27 | correctly. |
| 28 | . |
| 29 | Optionally, this package will edit your configuration to make the |
| 30 | default font "fixed" refer to the traditional font. |
| 31 | . |
| 32 | (This package does not actually contain the bulk of the font data; |
| 33 | rather, it automatically generates the required modified fonts for |
| 34 | each font you have installed.) |