With -current being updated at this moment i've made the required changes to my repository [1].

- Cheers

[1] https://github.com/nihilismus/bob-infinality-bundle

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If anyone wants to try the Firefox OS fonts, I have a SlackBuild here:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/du...ira.SlackBuild

Warning: it starts by cloning the git repository, which is currently close to 700mb.

EDIT: Not anymore it doesn't. Thanks to the posters below.

You might want to just download the readymade TTF files from https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/tree/master/ttf instead of downloading the whole font source.

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Then I'd have to update the SlackBuild every time they add, rename or retire a font file, and I wouldn't be able to version the package by the revision hash.

And besides, it's the OTFs that you want for a Linux desktop.

(I'm going for low-maintenance; a more-dedicated packager who is willing to do the above is welcome to).

Two words: shallow clone.
git clone --depth 1 brings it down to 329 Mb.

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THANKS!

SlackBuild updated.

Uh - What??? 700MB??? 329MB??? Just for a few font files?!?!

You two have just pointed out one of the big problems of git. You can not just get the files in a subdirectory.

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Thank you, MadMaverick! I had no idea you could do that, and I didn't know github supported svn. I've updated the SlackBuild again.

Thanks for the build Dugan but I was wondering if you could add a slack-desc? I know its not really needed but it is nicer cosmetically.

Maybe tomorrow.

I always find slack-descs to be the hardest part of writing SlackBuilds.

EDIT: Added.

Agreed, that's why I like to use Alien Bob's SlackBuild toolkit for making my slack-desc file. Makes it a breeze. http://alien.slackbook.org/AST/index.php

Slackware -current now has freetype-2.6-x86_64-1 so, once again, i've made the required changes to my repository [1].

Now I'm wondering if someone has an SlackBuild for infinality-bundle-fonts [2], which are quite a lot and include the Firefox OS fonts ;-)

- Cheers

[1] https://github.com/nihilismus/bob-infinality-bundle
[2] http://bohoomil.com/repo/fonts/

To contribute to a feasibility study of including translations in RTL languages in Slint installers, I have uploaded 'bogl' build stuff and packages for Slackware version 14.1 here.

Basically, the packages ship the 'bterm' terminal used by Debian's polyglot text installer, alongside an 'unifont' font, in two formats:

• unifont.bdf, found in the the source tarball[1]
• unifont.bgf used by bterm (the utility bdftobogl used to make the conversion is also shipped in the package)

Although the 'unifont' font be not specially well looking IMHO, this offers the advantage of using one single font for a lot of languages without X, in a framebuffer (needed by bterm to draw the characters on the screen): instead of being limited to 256 or 512 glyphs as in a raw Linux console, you get no less than 57086 characters at no additional cost.

If you'd like to try it, become root and in a (framebuffered) tty type as root "bterm.sh" (this wrapper scripts sets the font to unicode.bgf, see "bterm.sh --help").

You'll be dropped in a login shell and will have to log in as a regular user (but you may "su" after that).

While we are at it, if you want to get a wide range of characters on the console but prefer a better looking and scalable at will TTF font, like those included in the DejaVu collection, you could use fbterm, available @ http://slackbuilds.org.

For obvious reasons, to use either 'bterm' or 'fbterm' you will need an UTF8 encoded locale.

HTH some.

PS If you prefer to use another font than unifont.bgf in bterm, you can convert any to BDF with fontforge then convert it to BGF with:I have uploaded a few ones here. They don't look so good, that's my fault: I am not used to fontforge yet and probably used bad settings or options for rasterization. But you get the idea.

You can then start bterm like that from a framebuffer:
[1]See the Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification from Adobe. BDF is a rather simple text format (see an example here) so you can use the "reduce-font" utility shipped in 'bogl' packages if you just need a subset of the glyphs. Writing instead a simple sed script to reduce the font to a set of ranges of Unicode code points is left to the reader as an exercise

just updated Chrome to 44.0.2403.130 and now the fonts in Chrome look like crap... anyone else see this effect as well?

Does somebody happen to already have slackbuild or packages for Infinality patched OpenJDK? Like this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/j...dk-infinality/