Re: A question of fonts

2007-08-01 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 23:28:01 +0100, andy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: [...] I have yet to try changing fontconfig/hinting_type to "Native" but will when a decent reason to shut X down presents in

Re: A question of fonts

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 23:28:01 +0100, andy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: [...] >>> I have yet to try changing fontconfig/hinting_type to "Native" but will >>> when a decent reason to shut X down presents in terms of work flow. >>> >>> Any

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > Attached is my list of installed fonts. A good list. I was too lazy to crosscheck that with my list but here are the fonts that I installed when upgrading to be able to enable a large selection of fonts for web pages. I am sure there is overlap with Ron's list. ttf-opensy

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-31 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: [...] And in response to xrdb -query: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi:120.00 Xft.hinting:1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: none

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: [...] >>> And in response to xrdb -query: >>> >>> Xft.antialias: 1 >>> Xft.dpi:120.00 >>> Xft.hinting:1 >>> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull >>> Xft.rgba: none >>> [...

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-31 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] This could also be a problem with your settings for font display rather than with the fonts themselves. [...] Maybe you can post your font settings and we can have a

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 30 2007 13:40, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >> > >> > > > > If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that > > setting by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". > > > > I think etch uses utf-8 by default. A better solution would be if > >

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> This could also be a problem with your settings for font display rather >> than with the fonts themselves. [...] >> Maybe you can post your font settings and we can have a look: >> >> awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/' /v

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-30 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:28:13 +0100, andy wrote: [...] I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly Xmms is the worst of the bunch. This could also be a problem with

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-30 Thread andy
Alan Ianson wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: If you type env in a term what is lang= set to? You can adjust that setting by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". I think etch uses utf-8 by default. A better solution would be if packages were utf-8 capable. It may be that xmms and iceweasel are n

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:28:13 +0100, andy wrote: [...] > I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with > Xmms and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But > certainly Xmms is the worst of the bunch. This could also be a problem with your settings for font displ

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-29 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 07/28/2007 01:30 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: >> msttcorefonts >> >> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository. >> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ > > This package is in contrib. No need for debian-multimedia for > this one. Whoops! Than

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
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 availa

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/07 21:06, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0100, andy wrote: >> I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with Xmms >> and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly Xmms is

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > I do have the latest msttcorefonts installed. It just looks crap with Xmms > and sometimes Iceweasel seems difficult to read too. But certainly Xmms is > the worst of the bunch. I think XMMS is a GTK 1 application, and it's fonts will be th

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 16:18, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >>> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > >

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 10:28:13PM +0100, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > >On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > >>On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > >> > >>>Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > >>>package to use for a desktop machine. > >>> > >>I

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread andy
Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use for a desktop machine.

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > >>> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > >>> package to use for a desktop machine. > >> > >> I have only installed one f

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread andy
Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use for a desktop machine. I have only installed one font package and have no experience with any others.

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > > package to use for a desktop machine. > > I have only installed one font package and have no experience > with any others. > > msttcorefonts > > I

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: > Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts > package to use for a desktop machine. I have only installed one font package and have no experience with any others. msttcorefonts It is available in the debian-multimedia repository. http://www.

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:15, 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