Re: Fonts in the LSB?
Hi,
I don't know, if you have received a reply about this already...
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Matt Taggart wrote:
> 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,
[...]
> 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?
In a later stage - probably. But it is way out of focus for LSB 1.0.
> Is this something that the LSB should solve?
Maybe in a special task force, for future addition.
> Would it be approprite to define a set of DFSG free fonts that could be
> assumed to be on the system?
Sounds like a good proposal!
LenZ
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