Narrow font?

[Janina Sajka]

This very subject has been fairly thoroughly discussed just this past
week on the Speakup list. You might want to check the list archives at
http://www.linux-speakup.org.

Also check for this topic from earlier this summer. We've had two
go-rounds on it on the Speakup list in the past few months.

Lee_Maschmeyer at wayne.edu writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> For the past year or more I've been using the parameter:
> 
> vga=12932
> 
> with both LILO (a line by itself) and grub (in with the kernel
> parameters). This gives me a screen of 50 lines by 132 columns if I
> use a font that's 8 pixels high. Very nice.
> 
> But on my new computer here at work, the video card has no width
> greater than 80 columns. The best I can do is 60 lines by 80
> columns. Having the extra lines is very nice, but this dinky little
> line length is going to drive me nuts. (I realize some of you use
> 25x80 screens and consider this the norm, but I come from a primitive
> environment whose name cannot be mentioned except accompanied by
> epithets. Ain't that sweet?)
> 
> As hinted above, to really get 60 lines I have to change fonts to one
> that is 8 pixels high. I've been using LatArCyrHeb-08 because it
> sounds like it would be similar to the default font for Fedora. I
> think these letters are 8 pixels wide but could be wrong. Is there
> such a thing as a narrow font that could give me some additional line
> length?
> 
> For an incomplete discussion of video modes (it doesn't mention
> fonts!) see /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc<tab>/svga.txt (Fedora location -
> your mileage may vary).
> 
> Thanks very much for any info,
> 
> Lee
> 
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				Free Standards Group (FSG)

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