From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Cc: kbd@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [kbd] [PATCH] setfont: Add option -d to double size of font.
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:33:19 +0200
Message-ID: <20190926083319.4s5zjycxzhxgaccz@Legion-PC.fortress> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190906022235.30572-1-blp@cs.stanford.edu>
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 07:22:35PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On high pixel density systems, such as 4k displays, typical font sizes like
> 8x16 are illegible to most readers. One solution would be to install and
> use fonts that are designed for these displays, but currently these are not
> widely available and perhaps they will never be available in all the same
> varieties as the low-density fonts that have been used for a long time.
>
> This patch introduces an alternative: it implements a -d option to setfont
> that causes each pixel to be doubled along each axis (which actually
> quadruples the size of the font). It makes all of the traditional fonts
> usable on high-DPI display.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Applied. Thanks!
--
Rgrds, legion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-26 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-06 2:22 Ben Pfaff
2019-09-17 13:31 ` Alexey Gladkov
2019-09-18 14:54 ` Ben Pfaff
2019-09-26 8:33 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]
2019-09-27 14:41 ` Ben Pfaff
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