Re: Font references and info
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:34:59PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
> On -3312-Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:27:42PM +0200, David Fokkema <dfokkema@ileos.nl> spake thus,
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:25:33PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
> > > On -3175-Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:41:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu> spake thus,
> > > > I've been trying to understand how fonts work on Debian over the last few days, and thought it might be useful
> > > > to share some of the references that look especially useful and some things I think I've found out. I was
> > > > inspired particularly by some problems with fonts under KDE, and I haven't fixed them yet. So I'm hardly an
> > > > expert.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Fonts in X are something that I've never really comprehended, and I wish someone somewhere would explain what the deal is with font servers like Xft and FreeType, their strengths and weaknesses, and what about anti-aliasing, and having fonts like Verdana available for just web browsing.
> > >
> > > If someone could write a mini-HOWTO on these topics it'd be like Christmas for me over here.
> > >
> > > Just a footnote to Ross: I don't mean to be nitpicky but you should either just break paragraphs, or more sensibly break your lines at 72 or 75 characters, it would help legibility enormously.
> >
> > Aaron, is this a joke? _Your_ lines are about three screens wide!
> >
> > Maybe, just maybe, it _was_ a joke and I just made a fool of myself, ;-)
> >
>
> But what about the fonts!
Yes, sorry...
I'll have to take some time to understand fonts. I really don't have a
clue... For example, in Knoppix, openoffice.org uses a font for the
menus etc. that looks quite good, while in my Sid, it looks ugly as
hell. I'm not that interested in using fonts in documents, but rather,
using fonts and anti-aliasing for the apps themselves. For example,
mozilla with AA looks _very_ neat! As does KDE 3.1, although apparently
nobody in debian-kde knew how to let the font of konsole be just plain
readable fixed, 8x13. I installed KDE to try out 'desktop linux' but
except for the time it takes to start up, it is quite unusable without a
readable konsole. I run X @800x600 on a TFT panel and, unfortunately,
this makes AA rendering of small fonts difficult...
David
PS: Sorry I didn't have any info to share...
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