Font-formats recognized by the Linux kbd package: Combining PSF fonts

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## 2. Combining PSF fonts

The program `setfont` will accept font descriptions like

> `

>     # combine partial fonts
>     none.00-17.16
>     ascii.20-7f.16
>     none.00-17.16
>     8859-1.a0-ff.16

> `

where the first line is precisely `# combine partial fonts` and the remaining lines contain filenames for PSF fonts to load. The above example (it is the file `iso01.16`) describes a font with 256 positions, of which the first 32 are taken from the file `none.00-17.16`, the following 96 from `ascii.20-7f.16`, the following 32 from `none.00-17.16` again, and the final 96 from `8859-1.a0-ff.16`. In this way all ISO 8859-* fonts of a given pointsize (here 16) can share the same initial 160 positions.

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