https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1748495
--- Comment #30 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs(a)n-dimensional.de> ---
I have found two ways to generate *.otb files for Terminus so far. Those are:
1. the fonttosfnt way which generates
* one TerminusBold.otb from ter-u*b.bdf and
* one TerminusNormal.otb from ter-u*n.bdf
with commands like
fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o TerminusBold.otb ter-u*b.bdf
fonttosfnt -b -c -g 2 -m 2 -o TerminusNormal.otb ter-u*n.bdf
2. the fontforge way which generates
* one ter-*[bn].otb for every ter-*[bn].bdf
with a number of commands like
fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open("ter-u12b.bdf");
Generate("ter-u12b.otb")'
At this time, I am inclined towards the fontforge way, as this uses the
stock fontforge shipped with Fedora, not from some COPR.
Now I am trying to read the current font guidelines, to fish out the
information applying for bitmap fonts from amongst instructions using
tools not shipped in Fedora at all (ttname), applying to vector fonts
only, etc.
I still want to maintain backward compatibility with older software
which still uses the old fonts through old rendering libraries. Not
everyone is using Pango and Gnome, after all.
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