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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ originally part of BSD. The starting point was the `gallant.hex` file as found on FreeBSD 14, which contained 502 glyphs at the time. This project currently provides -more than 4300 glyphs. Major additions: +more than 4500 glyphs. Major additions: * Greek * Cyrillic @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ more than 4300 glyphs. Major additions: * Zapf Dingbats * Tons of arrows * Tons of mathematical symbols +* Letterlike symbols and enclosed alphanumerics * Pixel-perfect box drawing -* Currency and letterlike symbols +* Currency symbols * More punctuation * Just enough Katakana to say コンニチハ * Powerline glyphs in the *Private Use Area* at U+e0a0 @@ -58,14 +59,14 @@ none are present. |U+2070 - U+209F|[Superscripts and Subscripts](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf) |Complete | |U+20A0 - U+20CF|[Currency Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf) |Complete | |U+20D0 - U+20FF|[Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20D0.pdf)|Complete | -|U+2100 - U+214F|[Letterlike Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf) |Partial | +|U+2100 - U+214F|[Letterlike Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf) |Complete | |U+2150 - U+218F|[Number Forms](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2150.pdf) |Complete | |U+2190 - U+21FF|[Arrows](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf) |Complete | |U+2200 - U+22FF|[Mathematical Operators](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf) |Complete | |U+2300 - U+23FF|[Miscellaneous Technical](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf) |Complete | |U+2400 - U+243F|[Control Pictures](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf) |Complete | |U+2440 - U+245F|[Optical Character Recognition](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2440.pdf) |Complete | -|U+2460 - U+24FF|[Enclosed Alphanumerics](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2460.pdf) |TODO | +|U+2460 - U+24FF|[Enclosed Alphanumerics](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2460.pdf) |Complete | |U+2500 - U+257F|[Box Drawing](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf) |Complete | |U+2580 - U+259F|[Block Elements](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf) |Complete | |U+25A0 - U+25FF|[Geometric Shapes](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf) |Complete | @@ -94,18 +95,25 @@ none are present. Codepoints >= U+10000 can be part of a BDF file, but cannot be used by core X11 since it internally restricts glyph encoding numbers to 16 bit. -(This does not apply to **Xft** rendered fonts). +(This limitation does not apply to **Xft** rendered fonts). The FreeBSD [vt(4)](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&apropos=0&sektion=4) -driver would work with fine with the full codepoint range. +driver works with fine with the full 32 bit codepoint range. ## How do I load/use this font? ### As an X11 Raster Font, e.g. for Xterm(1) -Install the BDF file where X11 looks for fonts. The following example -uses `$HOME/.fonts` as the font directory. +Install the BDF file `gallant.bdf` where X11 looks for fonts. You can +query the current font path with `xset q | sed -n '/^Font/,/^ /p'`. If +you do not have write permission to any of the font directories, you may +create your own under, say, `$HOME/.fonts`. + +The following example uses `$HOME/.fonts` as the font directory and adds +it to the font path. To make the font path addition permanent, you +should add the `xset` lines to your `$HOME/.xinitrc` or equivalent X11 +startup file. ``` mkdir -p $HOME/.fonts |