Defoma
I have a very basic Debian
system installed: base packages, x-window system, fluxbox, a system
monitor, links for downloads, firefox for browsing, thunderbird foe
e-mail. The fonts that come with firefox and Thunderbird in Debian -
out of the box at least - are minimal and, to my tastes, unacceptable.
Elemental fonts such as helvetica just aren't there. Neither are other
commonly employed fonts such as arial and lucida.
I've taken a lot of time to research the Debian approach to fonts
hoping to find a way to get an overview. I've looked at the man pages
for defoma, defoma-app, etc., and understand them on their face, but
these seem more descriptions that guides. I've googled and schmoogled
looking for some independent "How-To" to provide context for these man
pages but can find nothing helpful. My experience with fonts in other
distros seems of no value either. It's clearly not simply a matter of
installing the fonts you want and running fc-cache -fv. Fonts
already installed and visible in xfontsel are just not there for
firefox and thunderbird. Where does one start with defoma,
with the applications, with the fonts, what are the steps, the order to
things here? Minimally, I'd like to make lucida and helvetica available
to firefox and thunderbird. Might someone help?
Regards.
jlowell
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