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Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused



On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
> > Rob,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > Quoting Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>:
> > > 
> > > > I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
> > > > the list a couple of times.  It's available from
> > > > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt and is reproduced below so
> > > > people can criticies it more easily :)
> > > By jove, you've got it!!! I wish to hell I'd had your guide when I
> > > first started mucking with fonts.  I think we just need to get your
> > > guide into docbook format or something similar and make it more well
> > > known.
> > 
> > How about DDP document which uses debiandoc-sgml.
> 
> Sure, sounds like a good idea.  I may not have time to do this until
> next weekend, however.

Cool.

> > Since it is a small topic, if you wish, I will be grad to make it a part
> > of "Debian Reference".  Rewite around:
> > 
> >   http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xfs-tt
> > 
> > I am not extensive on this subject.  (Tough part is write is generic
> > enough so minor version up in X will not change description.)
> 
> I don't think this will be too much of a problem.  There don't seem to
> be any changes with regard to font configuration for X itself within the
> 4.0 series, there's just the addition of things like xft1 and
> fontconfig.

Good.

By the way, x-ttcidfont-conf depends on defoma.  So all you need is
  # apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf

Also about nice set of free fonts
  # apt-get install ttf-bitstream-vera
or
  # apt-get install ttf-freefont

Just FYI to support CJK and other fonts:

tfm-arphic-bsmi00lp, tfm-arphic-bkai00mp, tfm-arphic-gbsn00lp,
tfm-arphic-gkai00mp, hbf-jfs56, hbf-cns40-b5, hbf-kanji48,
ttf-baekmuk
ttf-thryomanes

I do not exactly know how they fit together but I have them all and can
see all sorts of characters :-)

For Japanese fonts, there is sticky problem right now.
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200310/msg00142.html

Osamu

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