From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KxSNM-000259-T0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:44 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxSNL-00023T-0Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:43 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxSNJ-00021k-E5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58042 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxSNJ-00021W-7O for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:41 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:47853 helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxSNJ-0002cz-Hr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:19:41 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (84.248.105.254) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5AC900CE71ED for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:19:40 +0200 Message-ID: <4910AE5A.8050004@nic.fi> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:19:38 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20080901092753.3918cf73@gamma.lan> <20081004214640.5ab21f53@gibibit.com> <48E87FB9.8070603@nic.fi> <20081030121106.4efffecc@gibibit.com> <20081030205736.7e080a5e@gibibit.com> <20081031125032.13ab8b06@gibibit.com> In-Reply-To: <20081031125032.13ab8b06@gibibit.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] GSoC #10 new font engine (UTF-8 support+bugfix) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:19:43 -0000 Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:31:31 +0000 > "Matt Sturgeon" wrote: > >> will all these fonts be included in the next release of GRUB 2? > > Probably not; the licenses may not be compatible with GPLv3. These > fonts are ones that came with X.Org on my system, and I just exported > them to BDF files with 'xmbdfed' and then converted the BDF files to > PF2 files with the GRUB font converter. > > Some of the fonts I used during my development of the graphical menu > system are from the "Artwiz" bitmap font collection, which is a set of > several fonts, but most all quite small in size (really no selection of > font size within a font). > > I haven't spent a lot of time seeking out good free fonts that we could > include in GRUB. I use the fabulous Liberation TrueType fonts on my > desktop, but these are outline fonts, not bitmap fonts. I tried > creating a bitmap font from some decent TrueType outline fonts using > xmbdfed, but the results were quite ugly, so I gave up on that. Font issue is actually a bit problematic. At least there has to be some font somewhere that we can give to users so they can actually use graphical terminal :) Are there any free fonts that we can use ?