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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# uses otf2bdf and bdf2psf to turn a ttf/otf font into a console font.
+# all args are passed through to otf2bdf, please don't pass -o file.bdf.
+
+# right now, output is to test.psfu. This will change in the future.
+
+otf2bdf "$@" -c C -o tmp.bdf
+
+# lie to bdf2psf, dirty hack alert! bdf2psf needs the AVERAGE_WIDTH
+# to be a multiple of 10. And it messes up the kerning if we don't
+# add a fudge factor (the 30, below).
+AV=$( sed -n 's,AVERAGE_WIDTH ,,p' tmp.bdf )
+AV=$(( ( AV + 30 ) / 10 * 10 ))
+sed -i "/AVERAGE_WIDTH/s, .*, $AV," tmp.bdf
+
+SETDIR=/usr/share/bdf2psf
+
+# bdf2psf wants all this crap passed as a single argument with no
+# spaces. I need to be able to read and maybe modify the list, so:
+SETS="\
+$SETDIR/ascii.set+\
+$SETDIR/linux.set+\
+$SETDIR/fontsets/Lat2.256+\
+$SETDIR/fontsets/Uni1.512+\
+$SETDIR/useful.set\
+"
+
+bdf2psf --fb tmp.bdf $SETDIR/standard.equivalents $SETS 512 test.psfu