<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">If your current display is around 150dpi, you can see what QVGA would be like with something like this:<br><br>xterm -fn '*-clean-*--6-*-c-40*' &</span><br><font face="arial,sans-serif"><br>
This will give you a terminal window with a 4x6 font cell (3x5 for characters + 1px spacing). Note that the automatic "smear bold" make this font unreadable, but the non-bold works.<br><br>However, I would much prefer to use a larger font on a VGA-size display with 285dpi, like this:<br>
<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">xterm -fn '*-clean-med*--16-*-c-80-*' -fb '*-clean-bold*--16-*-c-80-*' &</span><br><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: David Samblas Martinez <<a href="mailto:dsamblas@yahoo.es">dsamblas@yahoo.es</a>><br>To: List for Openmoko community discussion <<a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a>><br>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:44:35 +0000 (GMT)<br>Subject: Re: Font type and size was (QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03)<br>But I have no knowlege about this font, hehehe I like it. ~70 chars/line in the example of 291 pixels so in a 640 will be about ~160 chars in one line (penden to confirm the minimum distance to be readable maybe 3 cm hehehe well now seriouly I was able to read the example in a 1280x768 10.6" inch screen so about 140 dpi in 40 cm distance with no movement (in a desk). I totally agree that this font is not for work but it can be used to make a text thumbnail in a icon of a text file or to and advanced text editor had a mosaic quickview of all open text files<br>
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Only dumb maths 160 columns x 60 lines = 4600 chars per screen (well maybe a lot of strange dots on a screen)<br>
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--- El mar, 10/6/08, Dave O'Connor <<a href="mailto:doc@skynet.ie">doc@skynet.ie</a>> escribió:<br>
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> De: Dave O'Connor <<a href="mailto:doc@skynet.ie">doc@skynet.ie</a>><br>
> Asunto: Re: QVGA V/s VGA for GTA03 (was something about yummy CPU-GPU combos!)<br>
> Para: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <<a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a>><br>
> CC: "Dotan Cohen" <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>>, "Flemming Richter Mikkelsen" <<a href="mailto:quatrox@gmail.com">quatrox@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Fecha: martes, 10 junio, 2008 8:04<br>
> I'm with Robert on this one. Took me a while to parse<br>
> many of the<br>
> characters on that image.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, robert lazarski wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:12 PM, The Rasterman<br>
> Carsten Haitzler<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:raster@openmoko.org">raster@openmoko.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:57:36 +0300 "Dotan<br>
> Cohen" <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> babbled:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> 2008/6/10 The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler<br>
> <<a href="mailto:raster@openmoko.org">raster@openmoko.org</a>>:<br>
> >>>> nb - your chars just become tall (3x7).<br>
> eg:<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>><br>
> >>> I understand. I would still like to see a<br>
> screenshot of fstab or<br>
> >>> xorg.conf open in vim with such a font on qvga<br>
> screen. I don't mind<br>
> >>> getting used to some displeasures, however<br>
> others I avoid if possible.<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> <a href="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/%7Efine/images/fonts/atari-small-samp.gif" target="_blank">http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/images/fonts/atari-small-samp.gif</a><br>
> >><br>
> ><br>
> > That's painful for this reader. I couldn't<br>
> write or read code - or<br>
> > anything really - in that font for more than a few<br>
> seconds. IMHO, It'd<br>
> > be kind of ironic that a "totally hackable"<br>
> phone wouldn't have the<br>
> > ability to read or write text. FYI, I did lasik<br>
> corrective surgery so<br>
> > my eyesight is relatively good .<br>
> ><br>
> > Robert<br></blockquote></div><br>