On 07/28/07 14:15, andy wrote: > Dear all > > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to > use for a desktop machine. The font package I have right now seems to > really screw with the legibility of Xmms and even Iceweasel. I'd like to > make use of fonts that are available in MS Office (for inter-operability > with MS docs I have to process). If it makes any diffs, I typically run > either Gnome or Xfce4, on a testing (Lenny) machine. > > Thanks for any leads.
Attached is my list of installed fonts. The "foreign" fonts let me view non-Western web pages and spam using the correct Eastern fonts, instead of little squares. But Kumar Appaiah is correct in that xmms is a GTK 1.x app, and thus can't/won't ever look nice. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
ii console-data 2:1.02-2 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for console-tools ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre41 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s) ii gsfonts-other 6.0-3.2 Additional fonts for the ghostscript interpreter ii gsfonts-x11 0.20 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-7 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts ii msttcorefonts 2.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts ii sun-java5-fonts 1.5.0-12-2 Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE) ii t1-cyrillic 4.11 A basic set of free PostScript fonts ii t1-teams 4.11 Teams -- a PostScript font covering ASCII and basic Cyrillic ii t1-xfree86-nonfree 4.2.1-3 non-free Postscript Type 1 fonts from XFree86 ii ttf-alee 11.4 A Lee's free Hangul truetype fonts ii ttf-arphic-bkai00mp 2.10-6.1 "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ii ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp 2.10-6.1 "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ii ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp 2.11-6.1 "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ii ttf-arphic-gkai00mp 2.11-6.1 "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ii ttf-arphic-ukai 0.1.20060928-2.2 "AR PL ZenKai Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType font Kaiti style ii ttf-arphic-uming 0.1.20060928-2.2 "AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni" Chinese Unicode TrueType font Mingti styl ii ttf-baekmuk 2.2-1 Baekmuk series TrueType fonts ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7 The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts ii ttf-dejavu 2.18-1 Vera font family derivate with additional characters ii ttf-dustin 20030517-6 Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-12 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts ii ttf-larabie-deco 1:20011216-1.1 Decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com ii ttf-larabie-straight 1:20011216-1.1 Straight fonts from www.larabiefonts.com ii ttf-larabie-uncommon 1:20011216-1.1 Special decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com ii ttf-opensymbol 2.2.1-6 The OpenSymbol TrueType font ii ttf-summersby 1.007-1 Free TrueType typeface font ii ttf-thryomanes 2:1.2-5 A Unicode font covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA ii ttf-unfonts 1.0.1-6 Un series Korean TrueType fonts ii ttf-xfree86-nonfree 4.2.1-3 non-free TrueType fonts from XFree86 ii xfont-nexus 0.0.2-12 Transitional package ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-3 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.0-3 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-3 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 1:1.0.0-3 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) ii xfonts-baekmuk 2.2-2.1 BAEKMUK Korean fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-4 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-base-transcoded 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1) ii xfonts-cyrillic 1:1.0.0-4 Cyrillic fonts for X ii xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.2-1 Encodings for X.Org fonts ii xfonts-intl-chinese 1.2.1-6 International fonts for X -- Chinese ii xfonts-intl-chinese-big 1.2.1-6 International fonts for X -- Chinese big ii xfonts-knickers 0.0.1-3.1 Knickers font for X ii xfonts-nexus 0.0.2-12 Nexus font for X ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6 scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-terminus 4.20-5.1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading ii xfonts-terminus-dos 4.20-5.1 Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings ii xfonts-terminus-oblique 4.20-5.1 Oblique version of the Terminus font
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