Fonts

Pupeno pupeno at pupeno.com
Sat Nov 20 22:37:36 GMT 2004


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Je Sabato Novembro 20 2004 16:30, James Richard Tyrer skribis:
> Pupeno wrote:
> > I don't use iso 8859-1 (aka Latin1) anywhere... it is obsolete and
> > problematic, I use UTF-8 everywhere.
>
> You can use iso 8859-1 to either mean a character set or an encoding.  I
> meant the character set.  It is also the first page of Unicode.
Yes, character set, sorry, my mistake.
But I'm using extended characters that are in the second page of Unicod, which 
is not the same to iso8859-1.

> >>There are free URW fonts in both TT and Type1 which should have come with
> >>your distro.
> >>
> >>I checked and URW Nimbus Sans L (Type1) does have: ŝ
> >
> > I'll check it to see how nice it plays with my eyes.
> >
> >>You can install the MicroSoft TT fonts:
> >
> > I don't want to use non-free software and non-free fonts.
>
> Actually, neither of these fonts are free software, they were donated and
> therefore, available for free use.  Now MicroSoft wants to be rather
> strange about Arial.  But the EULA says that it is freely distributable as
> long as you distribute it in its original form.

I've checked the Numbus fonts, I have checked them before... they are free:
$ emerge search urw-fonts
Searching...
[ Results for search key : urw-fonts ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

*  media-fonts/urw-fonts
      Latest version available: 2.1-r2
      Latest version installed: 2.1-r2
      Size of downloaded files: 3,710 kB
      Homepage:
      Description: free good quality fonts gpl'd by URW++
      License:     GPL-2

but, for some reason, KDE things that Nimbus Mono L is not a Monotype or 
Monospace font, so, I can choose it for the Monospace font in kcontrol, 
because it only let me choose monotype fonts. :(
Maybe it is a bug in the font, or a bug in KDE, I don't know.
- -- 
Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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