UW ttyp0 2.0 was released

[vmisev]

Great news! I just got email from Dr. Uwe Waldmann that his bitmap font UW ttyp0 was released as update 2.0 and now full headline reads
UW ttyp0 – Monospace Bitmap Screen Fonts for X11 and the Linux and BSD Console.
New things are (quote from email):

more sizes (14x30, 18x40) \ more font formats (OTB and console fonts for Linux and the BSDs) \ more alphabets (Tifinagh, Braille) \ more glyphs (e.g., a few Nerdfont symbols) \ more stylistic variants \ more documentation

Most important feature for us (@ FreeBSD) is that now vt(4) (and cs(4)) fonts can be built directly from the source, no more need for vtfontcvt(8)! Just edit TARGETS.dat and set GEN_CONS_FREEBSD_VT to 1!

Also, console fonts for OpenBSD, NetBSD and Linux are supported.

Thank you, Dr. Uwe!

P.S. I hope that rakuco or stesser will upgrade x11-fonts/uw-ttyp0 soon.

 

[vmisev]

UW ttyp0 was updated to 2.1, but this update brings nothing new for us (@ FreeBSD), Dr, Uwe just

forgot to update the Makefile for Linux console fonts and the console font converter for NetBSD/OpenBSD console fonts accordingly. (Other font formats (pcf, otb, and FreeBSD console fonts) are not affected.)