Installing ‘Standard’ Inferno Fonts
Update: sqweek has been kind enough to ignore some dumb laws and conveniently host a copy of the fonts for easy download at http://sqweek.dnsdojo.org/inferno/fonts.tar.gz Thanks!
The original Inferno fonts are not free (as in freedom) and can only be distributed together with the ‘official’ Inferno distribution.
Because of this restriction the source distribution and other derivative Inferno packages can’t include fonts, and if you have built Inferno from source many applications wont work.
Here is a script by caerwyn that used to be included with acme-sac which will download the fonts from VitaNuova’s site and install them:
#!/dis/sh.dis
load std
if {ftest -d /fonts/lucidasans}{
echo 'error: /fonts directory already exists'
exit
}
mkdir /fonts
mkdir /tmp/inferno
cd /tmp/inferno
webgrab -v -r -o - http://www.vitanuova.com/dist/4e/20070510/inferno.tgz > inferno.tgz
gunzip <inferno.tgz > inferno.tar
gettar < inferno.tar
gunzip <install/inferno/1178807193.gz >install/inferno/1178807193
archfs -m mnt/wrap install/inferno/1178807193 /fonts
cp -r mnt/wrap/fonts/* /fonts
unmount mnt/wrap
rm -rf /tmp/inferno
It is strongly recommended that anyone working on Inferno-based projects replaces the ‘standard’ fonts with a free set of fonts like acme-sac has eventually done by using the Vera font set.
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