[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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