
Q. Italic version?

A. No. The quality is much lower, and preserving the font width
requires overlapping characters, which are not handled very well by
X11/Xft. If you need it than badly, try mkitalic
(ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/x11-fonts/mkitalic-1.0.tgz)
from BSD or bdfslant
(ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfonts-terminus/xfonts-terminus_4.12-2.diff.gz)
from Debian.

Q. Scalable version?

A. Yes, when the TFT monitors and/or resolutions 2048x1536 and higher
become the standard. Most probably TrueType looking somewhat like size
10x20. An italic version may or may not be included.

Q. Win32 version?

A. No, there are problems with the raster font codepages and
sizes. You can try the pseudo-TrueType
(http://fractal.csie.org/~eric/wiki/Terminus_font) version by Eric
Shao-yu Cheng.

Q. How to create an italic version with mkitalic?

A. Sorry, but I do not answer questions about mkitalic, bdfslant and
the pseudo-TrueType version, neither questions specific to a
particular Linux distribution. Read the sources/documentation or write
to the respective package maintainer.

Q. How about some new characters?

A. That depends. If you need a few special characters, mail me and
I'll probably include them. But if you need a whole new alphabet or
digit set, I'll have to disappoint you. The letters and digits are
very important to a font, and to make them easily readable, I must
know very well what they look like. If I don't know your alphabet and
can't even read it, there isn't much reason to try. The digits and
most of the letters and punctuation characters that I'm familiar with
are already included in the font.

Q. The bold 6x12 font...

A. ...does not exist (see README 4.1).

Q. The font works with X11/Motif, but not with GNOME/KDE/Xfce.

A. See fonts-conf(5).
