Import spleen bitmap fonts to contrib/

[emaste]

Summary

Spleen is a set of monospaced bitmap fonts in five sizes from 5x8 to 32x64 and is 2-clause BSD licensed.

Prepare to make spleen fonts available for vt(4) in the base system, in particular to support hi-resolution (e.g. 4K) monitors.

https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/

[imp]

This detached license is basically required since bdf files don't have a good way to add it.

[imp]

well, it could be in the files, but it's unambiguous enough. I assume this is how it is upstream?

[imp]

ah, enough searching and I see that it is.

[tobik]

This needs to be updated to 1.5.0 which adds Latin Extended-A chars and box drawing characters(!), so dialog(1) looks right now and the window separator is actually drawn in tmux(1).

https://github.com/fcambus/spleen/blob/1.5.0/ChangeLog
https://github.com/fcambus/spleen/releases/download/1.5.0/spleen-1.5.0.tar.gz

[zarychtam_plan-b.pwste.edu.pl]

Spleen 1.6.0 has been released a few days ago --> https://github.com/fcambus/spleen/blob/1.6.0/ChangeLog. It would be a nice Christmas gift for 4K monitor users to add this font to the base.

[emaste]

update to 1.6.0

[fred_statdns.com]

In D20654, tobik raised the concern that new releases of Spleen still happened regularly at the time this differential was opened, which was indeed a valid concern in 2019.

At this point though, Spleen is mostly in maintenance mode, so this shouldn't be a problem anymore. For info, I released Spleen 1.9.2 yesterday, which is a maintenance release updating the build scripts and documentation. The last modifications on the BDF files themselves happened in March 2021.

Hoping to see this differential finally be committed :-)

[emaste]

Vendor import in f3d044c73b847c27ea751557b6c979b735a3771f (1.6.0) and 5eab6333fa27e2b6954c6927859d462a004e57bb (1.9.3 update), will merge to contrib/ shortly.