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@@ -3,21 +3,22 @@ Unicode Basic Multilinguial Plane(BMP). The BMP is the first Unicode
"plane" of 65,536(16bit) code points, and includes character encoding
for most of the world's modern scripts.
-By default, the package will include precompiled versions of the
-font in TTF (TrueType), PCF (X Window bitmap) and PSF (console)
-formats. This can be changed using FONTFORMATS environment variable,
-which should be set to comma-separated list of font formats to include
-in the package.
+By default, the package will include precompiled versions of the font in OTF
+(OpenType), PCF (X Window bitmap), PSF (console) and OTB (OpenType Bitmap)
+formats. This can be changed using FONTFORMATS environment variable, which
+should be set to comma-separated list of font formats to include in the
+package.
Available formats are:
+otf = OpenType
ttf = TrueType
pcf = X Window bitmap
psf = Console fonts
otb = OpenType Bitmap fonts, compatible with recent versions of Pango
- which don't support PCF fonts. Fonts in this format are generated
- by converting precompiled PCF fonts using fonttosfnt tool.
+ which don't support BDF/PCF fonts. Fonts in this format are generated
+ by converting precompiled BDF/PCF fonts using fonttosfnt tool.
For example, setting FONTFORMATS=pcf,psf will include only PCF and
PSF fonts. If FONTFORMATS variable is not set the default value
-"ttf,pcf,psf" is assumed.
+"otf,pcf,psf,otb" is assumed.