Fonts in the LSB?
Recently I've noticed that with increased support for TrueType fonts and more
applications that can take advantange of them, there is a lot of confusion
about what fonts can be expected to be on the system. In a quick search on
linuxdoc.org, I found 4 different related HOWTOs,
Font HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html
XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html
TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.0.x mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html
All of these have various pointers on where to get fonts and all of them
mention using(stealing?) TT fonts from Microsoft Windows(tm). I'm worried that
without a standard,
- applications may have to assume that a font is present
- applications may have to deliver the font themselves
- free software applications may be dependent on non-free fonts
Is this something that the LSB could solve?
Is this something that the LSB should solve?
Would it be approprite to define a set of DFSG free fonts that could be
assumed to be on the system?
I couldn't find anything on the web site about this.
Thanks,
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Matt Taggart
taggart@fc.hp.com
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