This stuff is going to be published on TLDP soon as the new unified Font-HOWTO: http://avi.alkalay.net/linux/docs/font-howto I'm just waiting for some revisions. Regards, Avi On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:13:54 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > tor, 16.12.2004 kl. 23.21 skrev Nicolas Mailhot: > > Le jeudi 16 décembre 2004 à 14:11 -0800, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why is it so? Why is those fonts, which it seem like > > > > "everyone" thinks > > > > are really ugly are used, when better fonts are > > > > shipped? > > > > > > > > > I have heard before that this is because the default > > > fonts should be internationalised or something like > > > that which bitstream fonts arent > > > > It might be worth taking a new look now that the deja variant of vera is > > announcing new glyphs every other months. Of course we're far from full > > unicode coverage, but fontconfig will fall back on Luxi if needed, so... > > Would that mean that if we used the nice fonts as default, everyone > wanting to read a document with common glyphs would have no problem > reading it (both glyphwise and readabilitywise) - and those who has a > doc with less common glyphs, would get a mix? Or will the get only "old" > glyps in those docs? So for those who uses common glyphs, it will be a > good thing, and it won't hurt those who use less common glyps? > > What are we waiting for? > > Kyrre > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list >
