Re: Defoma

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (15/09/04 01:35), John Lowell wrote:
> Anssi Porttikivi wrote:
> 
> >
> >Neither can anyone else. It's a mess.
> >
> Hi Anssi,
> 
> First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I 
> sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things 
> like that, eh? :-)
> 
> So it's a mess? That's certainly not encouraging. Frankly, I'm a little 
> surprized. I'm new to Debian but know that there are a lot of very 
> capable people here. I'd have thought that helpful documentation for 
> something so closely identified with Debian as it's own font manager 
> would be available somewhere. I come away from the various man pages 
> utterly confused. Where to start, should it be the programs first, the 
> fonts? I'm afraid to tinker for fear I'll hose the fonts that are 
> already there and functioning. There's got to be an order to these 
> things. I'd volunteer to write a How-To if only I knew How-To. :-)
> 
> Amusingly, I wrote a few weeks ago about fonts and the one kind soul 
> that replied referred me in one phrase to Defoma.  Maybe it's God 
> punishing me. :-)
Rob Weir wrote a useful guide:
http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt

HTH

Regards

Clive


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