1 Fragment of the "readme" file in Joel Hoffman's codepage.tar.Z
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4 File readme. June 14, 1992.
7 I have included two sample fonts, one written by myself and the other
8 by Dimitri Vulis (dlv@cunyvms1.BITNET). Both are in the public
9 domain. My font, 972.cp, is a Hebrew font. The other is 880.cp, a
10 Cyrilic font (Russian etc.).
12 The Hebrew font uses the same encoding scheme as the VT-100's in
13 Israel, so any software that works on those will now run on Linux
14 (e.g., my hebrew.el package for GNU Emacs).
16 I'm told 880.cp follows the relevent Russian standard, so I suppose it
19 This package, while (c) 1992 by Joel M. Hoffman, can be used as freely
20 as any other part of Linux.
23 972.cp Font data for 25-line Hebrew font.
24 880.cp Font data for Cyrilic font.
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28 Elsewhere I found fonts 880-14.psf, 880-16.psf, 972-14.psf, 972-16.psf,
29 but these turn out to come from 880.cp and 972.cp, and since setfont
30 now also understands *.cp files I deleted the four abovementioned fonts.
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34 H. Peter Anvin writes:
36 I developed the Latin-1 *.psf fonts; Pavel Zaboj did the Latin-2
37 ones. SLS took them directly from Pavel's national package.
38 A DOS-hosted PSF font editor is available on eecs.nwu.edu.
40 Daniel Quinlan sent a new version of lat1-16.psf due to hpa and him.
42 Primoz Peterlin <peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si> corrected lat2-??.psf.
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46 The font default8x16 is from my hardware.
47 Bruno Haible contributed def2_8x16.
49 The fonts iso*.* are due to Kosta Kostis (kosta@blues.sub.de)
50 and were obtained from
51 ftp.uni-erlangen.de:pub/doc/ISO/charset/isofont101.tar.gz
53 The fonts gr.* are due to Sarantos Kapidakis (sarantos@ics.forth.gr).
54 He writes: "I am sending you the greek fonts, for 8x14 and 8x16.
55 They follow the ELOT928 standard."
57 Paul Gortmaker (paul@rasty.anu.edu.au) contributed ugly_l
58 (which I removed again because now it can be found as 8x16alt
59 in his collection of fonts kbd_fonts.tar.gz obtainable from
60 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Keyboards/ and from
61 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/system/ ).
63 Some more fonts can be found in
64 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Keyboards/fontpack.tgz
66 Raul D. Miller (rockwell@nova.umd.edu) made aply16.psf.
67 Angelos Karageorgiou (angelos@netaxis.com) contributed gr*.psf.
68 Ahmed Naas (ahmed@oea.xs4all.nl) contributed 16[1-5].cp.
69 Daniel Yacob contributed the Ethiopic fonts (see README.Ethiopic).
70 Ricardas Cepas (rch@pub.osf.lt) contributed LatArCyrHeb-*.psf
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74 Since kbd-0.96, setfont will load compressed fonts.
75 When I tried gzip and bzip2, the former was superior:
76 uncompressed 543332 bytes, bzip2: 225285 bytes, gzip: 204039 bytes.