octfont Files

Octfont provides a bold and compact font (i.e., compressed spacing font or
compressed font) for terminal windows.  The reviews for the octfont project
serve as a question and answer area for any josephms sourceforge project.  The
reviews for this project are checked regularly by the author as a method of
support for josephms projects.  Octfont includes three unicode fonts for X11
systems: oct, oct16, and oct24.  They feature narrow vertical spacing and bold
lettering.  The narrow spacing allows more lines on the screen.  While this is
contrary to aesthetic principles of font design, it is convenient for editing
and coding.  The bold lettering permits ease in viewing.  The fonts are unicode
fonts with more than 5000 characters.  The oct and oct16 fonts are the same font
with different alias names.  The oct24 font is larger.  The oct16 font is even
large enough to be easilyread on a 4K 3840x2160 display.  The fonts include
character representations for the octal control characters (hence the name,
octfont) rather than translating control characters to the null string like most
fonts.

Rel_1.2.0 updates the install process with debian policy guidelines for fonts:
remove fonts-oct.dir file, change the name of the fonts-oct.alias file to
octfont.alias, and add xfonts.utils to the control file depends line.

Rel_1.1.0 is the initial release of octfont, a bold and compact font for X11
terminal windows.