Conversation with #inferno at Sat Mar 6 15:18:09 2010 on powerman-asdf@irc.freenode.net (irc) (15:20:02) powerman: hi! i remember someone developed tool to convert font from some standard format (ttf or bdf, I think) to inferno .font and mentioned it here or on #plan9. (15:20:19) powerman: anybody remember details/url to source? (15:21:18) powerman: i've just started inferno on new monitor using 1680x1050, and failed to find large enough monospaces font in /fonts/ :( (15:24:57) powerman: probably tool i'm speaking about mentioned in lab-91 by caerwyn (15:32:08) mjl-: there is ttf2sub or something (15:33:02) mjl-: ttf2subf ttf2bdf (15:33:09) mjl-: http://mirtchovski.com/p9/ (15:33:16) mjl-: there may be an updated version on sources (15:34:05) powerman: yeah, i've just found both it and bdf2subf (15:34:16) powerman: the problem is, I've no plan9 installed (15:34:27) powerman: i've tried to compile it using p9p (15:39:58) powerman: there no 8c compiler in p9p... 9c compiled it but then it failed to run (i've intel x86 32 bit system, so i'm not sure using 9c is good idea) (15:41:25) powerman: here is what i do: (15:41:25) powerman: $ 9 9c -o bdf2subf bdf2subf.c (15:41:25) powerman: bdf2subf.c:305: warning: passing argument 4 of 'qsort' from incompatible pointer type (15:41:25) powerman: $ chmod +x bdf2subf (15:41:25) powerman: $ 9 ./bdf2subf (15:41:25) powerman: /usr/lib/plan9/bin/9: line 17: /home/powerman/download/bdf2subf/bdf2subf: cannot execute binary file (15:41:25) powerman: /usr/lib/plan9/bin/9: line 17: /home/powerman/download/bdf2subf/bdf2subf: Success (15:41:25) powerman: $ file bdf2subf (15:41:25) powerman: bdf2subf: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped (15:43:02) powerman: probably some stupid newbie mistake, as usually - i never tried to compile anything for plan9 (15:55:04) powerman: ok, got it. mkfile isn't compatible with p9p, so some manual 9c, yacc and 9l make working binary :) (15:58:15) j123m left the room (quit: Quit: No Ping reply in 180 seconds.). (15:58:41) j123m [~quassel@94.190.64.110] entered the room. (16:00:47) powerman: got working font! :) (16:22:44) powerman: uploaded font to http://inferno-os-downloads.googlecode.com/files/developer-font-1.4.tgz (16:23:21) powerman: (non-inferno) screenshots for this font available on my site: http://powerman.name/config/font.html (16:24:22) powerman: inferno screenshot also available :) http://powerman.name/tmp/inferno-dev-u24n.png