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+Terminess Powerline
+===================
+
+:Font creator: Dimitar Zhekov
+:Version: media-fonts/terminus-font-4.36 with USE=X pcf psf ru-g
+:Source: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net
+:License: SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1
+:Patched by:
+ `Nikolay Pavlov <https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I>`_,
+ `Carl X. Su <https://github.com/bcbcarl>`_
+
+Terminus Font is a clean, fixed width bitmap font, designed for long
+(8 and more hours per day) work with computers. Version 4.36 contains
+856 characters, covers about 120 language sets and supports
+ISO8859-1/2/5/7/9/13/15/16, Paratype-PT154/PT254, KOI8-R/U/E/F,
+Esperanto, many IBM, Windows and Macintosh code pages, as well as the
+IBM VGA, vt100 and xterm pseudographic characters.
+
+Terminess Powerline is derived from Terminus Font for Powerline users.
+The Powerline symbols is being made by Kim Silkebækken. The patch work
+is being undertaken by Nikolay Pavlov and Carl X. Su.
+
+Both the final font Truetype/OpenType files and the design files used
+to produce the font family are distributed under an open licence and
+you are expressly encouraged to experiment, modify, share and improve.
+
+Note: If you want to have patched font with different USE flags, use
+fontpatcher located at
+https://bitbucket.org/ZyX_I/bitmap-font-patcher, it is always using
+proper (manually adjusted) glyphs. Here are the variants controlled by
+USE flags (see font homepage for better explanations about what each
+USE flag does):
+
+.. table:: USE flags
+
+ =========== ============================================================================
+ USE Flag Description
+ =========== ============================================================================
+ a-like-o Changes view of letter 'a' - a looks like o
+ distinct-l ll2 variant with more distinctive l (lowercase L)
+ quote Changes view of quotes: symmetric ` and ' instead of asymmetric one
+ ru-dv Changes view of Russian letters 'de' and 've'
+ ru-g Changes view of Russian letter 'ge'
+ ru-i Changes view of Russian letter 'i' - not like Latin u, but like "mirrored" N
+ ru-k Changes view of Russian letter 'k'
+ =========== ============================================================================ \ No newline at end of file