Re: Missing Courier font
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:16:40 +0200
nito@dismail.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:45:58 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote:
> > Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian
> > package contains this font?
>
> My copy of the Courier font was installed by 'texlive-fonts-recommended'.
> If you want 'Courier 10pitch' instead of the original Courier, you need the
> package 'xfonts-scalable'.
>
> The ttf-mscorefonts package from contrib mentioned before, does *not* seem to
> contain the original Courier font, only Microsoft's variant 'Courier New'.
>
> In case you *did* mean MS's 'Courier New' instead of 'Courier':
> If you need to view documents with Microsoft's Courier New , Arial or Times New
> Roman and you don't care about the fonts specifically, only that formatting
> is right, you can replace them with free metric-compatible fonts:
> Either (Arimo, Cousine and Tinos) from fonts-croscore or the Liberation font
> family from fonts-liberation. These packages are in main.
> Most programs seem to pick them up as replacements automatically, if
> installed. In case this doesn't work you can alias them in your fontconfig
> configuration.
Others have given you useful answers, but in terms of process, you
should be trying something like this:
~$ apt-cache search courier | grep font
[The apt / cli gurus can doubtless come up with better versions.]
Celejar
Reply to: