[ndbug] OpenBSD fonts

Brian Callahan bcallah at devio.us
Wed Aug 26 13:30:45 EDT 2015



On 08/26/15 13:27, George Rosamond wrote:
> Greetings NDBug.
> 
> I spent the last week porting a bunch of fonts to OpenBSD.  Well, a
> bunch would be an understatement.
> 
> queair.net/obsd
> 
> There are 70-something fonts, a bunch of which are Google Noto fonts.  I
> raise the issue on this list specifically since there are a lot of
> languages common to South Asia.  I passed on languages with >1m
> speakers, and needless to say, there are a lot of languages in India
> still :)
> 
> On that note, if you are running OpenBSD, preferably with a recent
> build, please test some of them out if you are interested.  These are
> just typefaces to use in applications like LibreOffice, and
> synchronizing with keyboards, etc., is a whole other issue.
> 
> I do have one port in the queue with OpenBSD (junicode), but at this
> point, I'm more interested in seeing if there's a user-base for them.
> When/if junicode is accepted, I'll start submitting the others.
> 
> Several ports might not have full license information and other pieces,
> but they should all be operational.
> 
> To install, just download the tgz file and place in /usr/ports/fonts
> 

/usr/ports/mystuff/fonts -- /usr/ports/mystuff is the preferred
directory for things not committed to CVS yet. It is a special directory
that has all the magic to do the right thing(TM).

~Brian

> Then extract them:
> 
> $ tar zxvf <fontname>.tgz
> 
> A /usr/ports/fonts/<fontname> directory will appear.
> 
> $ cd <fontname>
> 
> then install:
> 
> $ make install
> 
> The font should automatically appear in LibreOffice or in any similar
> application.
> 
> Thanks, and let me know!
> 
> g
> 


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