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# Salut Fonts
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This is a family of manually drawn bitmap fonts.
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Source files are in BDF format, which is simple and is still supported.
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The mission of the project is to provide high quality multilingual font
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for applications where using of widely available vector fonts
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is impractical or aestetically unacceptable.
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The origin of the name is the word of a latin origin
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with the meaning "hello" or "greeting gesture"
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used in some languages (French, Polish, Romanian).
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## Installation and usage
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On a Linux graphic environment, you can install them with font installer supplied with your DE,
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or manually copy them to `.fonts` in your home directory,
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and then chose the font in system settings.
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However, some rendering libraries do not support BDF
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(notable case is Pango 1.44 dropped support for FreeType in favor of HarfBuzz),
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so you might not see bitmap fonts in some applications.
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There's a method to build OTB (open-type bitmap) font from BDF with `fonttosfnt`.
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The `opentype` target converts all fonts to OTB.
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Also conversion to PCF is possible make target `pcf` does this thing to all
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fonts by calling `bdftopsf` utility.
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Original inctruction: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BitmapFontConversion
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8x8, 14x8, 16x8 font can be installed in Linux console.
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First, convert BDF to PSF (bdf2psf utility needed for this).
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`make consolefonts` command will do the conversion for you.
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Then, copy psf fonts from build/consolefonts to /usr/consolefonts or whereever
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your distribution keeps .psf/.psf.gz files.
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Finally use console-setup or similarly named service to configure
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Linux to use your font (consult your distribution manual on how to do this).
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## Project structure
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There are several individual fonts in the family. They include:
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- **Salut Sans**, a proportional font for general use.
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- **Salut Mono**, a fixed width (monospaced) font designed for terminals.
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They include several sizes and also bold and italic.
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The monospaced font also include extended (1.4x width) and wide (double width) variant.
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Font file name consists of:
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````
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salut-sans14y.bdf
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| | | |||| |_|__ Filename extension
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| | | ||||______ Option letters (zero or more)
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| | | |||_______ Size (two digits)
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| | |__|_________ Individual name (sans etc.) |_ Font name
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|___|______________ Family name (always salut) |
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````
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Option letters include:
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* c - Condensed (about 0.7x wide)
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* y - Semiexpanded (about 1.2x wide)
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* x - Extended (about 1.4x wide)
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* w - Wide (2x wide)
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* b - Bold
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* i - Italic
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Monospace font size widths:
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height __________ width _________
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4 6 7 8 11 12 16
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8 08 08x 08w
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11 11 11x 11w
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12 12 12w
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14 14 14y
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16 16 16w
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22 22
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```` |