Nice fonts under Linux

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During a W3C team meeting today, I heard Dan and Gerald saying that
having nice fonts under Linux was a lot of work.

I have TrueType fonts and it wasn't that much work. Here's how I did
it:
1/ installed the msttcorefont package.
2/ edited my XF86Config-4:
  - put at the top of my font path:
      FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
  - made sure that I had support for TTF loaded as a module:
      Load    "freetype"

And voila.

You just have to make sure that your programs point to the TrueType
fonts and not to the default ones. For example, in Mozilla:
user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif");
user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "monotype-monotype corsiva-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "microsoft-comic sans ms-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "b&h-lucida console-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "monotype-times new roman-iso8859-1");
user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 15);
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 15);

For more info:

TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO
Bear Giles, [email protected]
v0.3, 10 January 2000
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html

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Re: Nice fonts under Linux

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Being yet another debian woody/testing package I wanted I was finally
compelled to switch to woody.  Not following the news/debate on this
particular package I was exceedingly surprised to see apt-get
downloading from www.microsoft.com to say the least.

Hugo Haas <[email protected]> writes:

> During a W3C team meeting today, I heard Dan and Gerald saying that
> having nice fonts under Linux was a lot of work.
>
> I have TrueType fonts and it wasn't that much work. Here's how I did
> it:
> 1/ installed the msttcorefont package.
> 2/ edited my XF86Config-4:
>    - put at the top of my font path:
>        FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
>    - made sure that I had support for TTF loaded as a module:
>        Load    "freetype"
>
> And voila.
>
> You just have to make sure that your programs point to the TrueType
> fonts and not to the default ones. For example, in Mozilla:
> user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif");
> user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "monotype-monotype corsiva-iso8859-1");
> user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "microsoft-comic sans ms-iso8859-1");
> user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", "b&h-lucida console-iso8859-1");
> user_pref("font.name.sans-serif.x-western", "microsoft-verdana-iso8859-1");
> user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", "monotype-times new roman-iso8859-1");
> user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 15);
> user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 15);
>
> For more info:
>
> TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO
> Bear Giles, [email protected]
> v0.3, 10 January 2000
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html
>
> --
> Hugo Haas <[email protected]> - http://larve.net/people/hugo/
> It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm
> really quite busy.
>
>
>

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RE: Nice fonts under Linux

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I see Linux has come a long way in usability. I can just see my mom
installing the 'msttcorefont' package right now.  In Windows I right click
anywhere on my desktop, select properties, go to the Appearance tab and
select which Font I want.

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