unifont 1:5.1.20080914-2 source package in Ubuntu
Changelog
unifont (1:5.1.20080914-2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Colin Watson ]
* Use maintscript support in dh_installdeb rather than writing out
dpkg-maintscript-helper commands by hand. We now simply Pre-Depend on a
new enough version of dpkg rather than using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper
supports' guards, leading to more predictable behaviour on upgrades.
(Closes: #659730)
[ Paul Hardy ]
* Applied above changes that Colin Watson provided in bug report,
simplifying debian/ file structure and making the Unifont package
more suitable for Ubuntu. The one exception is I didn't create
the ttf-unifont.maintscript file, because /etc/defoma/ no longer
on Debian or Ubuntu.
* debian/copyright - updated copyright and licensing information to
reflect the latest source code changes and license agreements.
* debian/README.Debian - minor change now that Etch is no longer
the current release.
* README - updated documentation to cover font modifications and the
latest license agreements.
* Corrected changelog entries for 1:5.1.20080808-1 and 1:5.1.20080914-1.2.
* debian/control changes:
- Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~), per Colin Watson's above changes.
- No separate uploaders.
* Created debian/source/format file.
* Removed debian/TODO file as it referred to defoma, which is no longer used.
* debian/watch now looks at ftp.gnu.org for upstream releases
* Accept NMU of Christian Perrier. (Closes: #634981)
* Accept NMUs of Paul Wise and Samuel Bronson. (Closes: #697999, #698067)
-- Paul Hardy <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:39:56 -0700
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Binary packages built by this source
- ttf-unifont: TrueType version of GNU Unifont
This contains two fonts: "Unifont" and "Unifont Sample".
.
unifont.ttf is a bitmap font converted into a scalable TrueType
outline font, Unifont. Each pixel in the original bitmap font
is represented as an outlined square. The font provides a glyph
for each visible code point (character) in the Unicode Basic
Multilingual Plane (Plane 0). Plane 0 contains most of the
world's modern writing scripts. This font looks best at 12pt.
.
unifont_sample.ttf is an SBIT font that contains combining circles
and is therefore suitable for illustrating individual Unicode glyphs.
unifont.ttf does not contain combining circles and so is suitable
for general-purpose writing.
.
Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters
change shape depending on their position in a word, or such as
Mongolian, which is written vertically) will not render perfectly.
The philosophy behind this font, though, is that anything meaningful
is better than an empty box for a unknown glyph.
- unifont: font with a glyph for each visible Unicode Plane 0 character
This package is a convenient way to install both the PCF bitmap
version and the scalable TrueType outline version of "Unifont"
(intended for general-purpose use) and "Unifont Sample" (which contains
combining circles to use for illustration purposes). It also installs
a copy of unifont.hex and related files in /usr/share/unifont.
.
GNU Unifont was designed to render something besides an empty box
for each visible Unicode character in the Basic Multilingual Plane
(Plane 0). Plane 0 contains most of the world's modern writing
scripts. This font looks best at 12pt.
.
Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters
change shape depending on their position in a word, or such as
Mongolian, which is written vertically) will not render perfectly.
The philosophy behind this font, though, is that anything meaningful
is better than an empty box for a unknown glyph.
- unifont-bin: utilities for manipulating the GNU Unifont
This is a set of Perl scripts, C programs, and FontForge scripts
to manipulate Roman Czyborra's GNU Unifont ".hex" format font
files. GNU Unifont has a Unicode-compatible font structure.
These utilities allow editing ".hex" fonts with text and
graphical editors, producing final versions of fonts in BDF,
PCF, TrueType SBIT, and TrueType outline formats.
.
To build the TrueType fonts, install the package 'fontforge'.
To build the PCF fonts, use 'bdftopcf', which is in the
'xfonts-utils' package. To obtain the font sources, run
'apt-get source unifont'.
- xfonts-unifont: PCF (bitmap) version of GNU Unifont
This contains two fonts: "Unifont" (unifont.pcf.gz) and
"Unifont Sample" (unifont_sample. pcf.gz) .
.
This is a bitmap version of Unifont and Unifont Sample in a
standard X11 format. The fonts provide a glyph for each visible
code point (character) in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
(Plane 0). Plane 0 contains most of the world's modern writing
scripts. These fonts look best at 12pt.
.
Unifont Sample contains combining circles for combining characters,
and so is suited for illustrating individual Unicode glyphs, whereas
Unifont is intended for general-purpose writing.
.
Complex fonts (such as Indic or Semitic scripts, where letters
change shape depending on their position in a word, or such as
Mongolian, which is written vertically) will not render perfectly.
The philosophy behind Unifont, though, is that anything meaningful
is better than an empty box for a unknown glyph.
.
Consider using the TrueType version instead (ttf-unifont), because
that version is scalable to any point size and has proper combining
character support.
