Copyright (c) 2011, Aaron Christianson ninjaaron@gmail.com
Licensed under the OFL v1.1
bitocra is a small, clear bitmap font especially for viewing a lot of lines of code or other text at once. It is somewhat stylized after the old OCR-A font, with many changes due to the format and size. It has all iso-8859-1 characters
bitocrafull is the same basic font, with extensive support for Latin unicode characters. Many of the characters in Latin Extended-A (primarily characters used in Eastern European languages as well as some others) are experimental, as I don’t use them, and need confirmation from someone more used to them as to their correctness. Any input in this area is welcome.
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bitocra13 is a much-requested larger version of bitocra. It currently supports ISO8859 encoding. bitocra13full is not quite as "full" as bitocrafull. It just adds Hebrew and certain other characters.
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bitocra7 is a never-requested smaller version of bitocra. It is currently only ascii, but will be expanded to ISO8895.
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4thD is a 4px font that I made for fun with complete ascii 128 encoding. It may, one day, evolve into the 5thD.
In some distros, you can simply extract the archive to you ~/.fonts
folder, or /usr/share/fonts (or one of it’s subdirectories) if you want
it to be available to all users. After that, update your font cache
with:
$ fc-cache -fv
And restart your X session.
If you want to add it to your X core fonts, you will need to move to the
directory and run mkfontdir, add the directory to your X fontpath:
$ xset +fp /path/to/font $ xset fp rehash
This will enable it for your session. You can make it perminant by
adding the path to /etc/X11/xorg.conf if you have it. If you do don’t
(like most people, now that Xorg configures automatically), set the
above commands to run with autostart scripts, ~/.xinitrc, or Startup
Applications, depending on your WM/DE/DM situation.
In Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and possibly other distros, bitmap fonts are
disabled by default. This can be fixed by running the following command:
In the folder /etc/fonts/conf.d/, there is usually a file responsible
for this. In Debian and it’s derivatives, it’s something like
70-no-bitmap-fonts. In Fedora, I think it was in the 20’s, maybe
25-no-bitmaps-fedora. It’s something obvious.
Also -in DEBIAN ONLY- you can run:
# dpkg reconfigure fontconfig-config # dpkg reconfigure fontcofig
The first command will open a little ncurses thing where you can turn on the bitmap fonts. After that, the above directions ought to work.