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   From: Marcel Müller    
      
   On 16.05.11 12.05, me@privacy.net wrote:   
   > Is there a form of the OS/2 screen fonts available for us in linux?   
      
   No, and it would not be reasonable either. Note that the OS/2 bitmap    
   fonts are not Unicode aware and have only a limited character set.   
      
   > If   
   > not, is there a font available with similar properties?   
      
   Well, I ended up using Monospace. You have to tweak with the size a bit.    
   And it is always a good advice to disable font anti aliasing, because it    
   makes the small fonts look neat - and blurred! The latter causes    
   significant eyestrain. Pixel borders do not cause eyestrain, they only    
   look not that pretty.   
   But you should not disable hinting entirely as it will cause the font    
   render engine to produce crap.   
      
   > I am in   
   > particular looking for the 25x7 screen font I can select in a window such   
   > as I run FC/2 in.   
      
   AFAIK the common window managers do not support bitmap fonts.   
   Btw. 25x7 or 15x7?   
      
   > My motiviation for this is that there is now a linux version of FC, so I   
   > would like this particular font as I find it more readable at my   
   > resolution of 1024x768 when running FC in 132 column mode.   
      
   More readable than what?   
      
      
   I currently use 11pt Monospace at 108 dpi (1856*1392 screen). This font    
   will take about 1300 Pixel for 132 columns. Your screen is smaller, so    
   you need a smaller one. But your display most likely does not have 108    
   dpi. The default of 96 dpi will shrink about 150 pixel. If you    
   additionally reduce the size to 9 to 9,5pt you will have about 1000    
   pixel. But letters like m no longer look very well anymore.   
      
   7 Pixel is not enough for a really readable font. I have never gone    
   below 16*8 for long. Fortunately my display is large enough since the    
   mid nineties when I quit using XGA.   
      
   > I would also   
   > be interested in a version I could install in Windows to use in the same   
   > manner.   
      
   Windows has some bitmap font, e.g. Fixedsys, but they are deprecated. So    
   many applications do not allow you to select them anymore. But if you    
   edit their configuration in the registry it will mostly work.   
      
      
   Marcel   
      
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