[gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[Allan Gottlieb]

I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny
chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge.

My current list follows.  Thanks in advance for any help.
allan

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allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font
app-admin/eselect-fontconfig
dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended
media-fonts/corefonts
media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
media-fonts/font-alias
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
media-fonts/font-misc-misc
media-fonts/font-util
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
media-libs/fontconfig
x11-apps/mkfontdir
x11-apps/mkfontscale
x11-libs/libXfont
x11-libs/libXfontcache
x11-libs/libfontenc
x11-proto/fontcacheproto
x11-proto/fontsproto
x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto
allan gottlieb # 

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:31:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Allan Gottlieb squawked:
> I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny
> chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge.
> 
> My current list follows.  Thanks in advance for any help.
> allan
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font
> media-fonts/corefonts
> media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
> media-fonts/font-alias
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-misc-misc
> media-fonts/font-util
> media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std

You probably want unifont, which is a bitmap font, but has the most
extensive coverage of unicode characters. Otherwise, dejavu covers a 
reasonably large set of Western characters in unicode, but looks a bit 
nicer as it is TrueType (if I remember correctly). 

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Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[Dale]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny
> chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge.
>
> My current list follows.  Thanks in advance for any help.
> allan
>
> ================================================================
>
> allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font
> app-admin/eselect-fontconfig
> dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended
> media-fonts/corefonts
> media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
> media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
> media-fonts/font-alias
> media-fonts/font-bh-type1
> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
> media-fonts/font-misc-misc
> media-fonts/font-util
> media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
> media-libs/fontconfig
> x11-apps/mkfontdir
> x11-apps/mkfontscale
> x11-libs/libXfont
> x11-libs/libXfontcache
> x11-libs/libfontenc
> x11-proto/fontcacheproto
> x11-proto/fontsproto
> x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto
> allan gottlieb # 
>
>   

I did this for you to compare:

root@smoker / # eix --installed --only-names font
app-admin/eselect-fontconfig
media-fonts/aquafont
media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
media-fonts/font-alias
media-fonts/font-bh-ttf
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
media-fonts/font-ibm-type1
media-fonts/font-misc-misc
media-fonts/font-util
media-fonts/freefont-ttf
media-fonts/freefonts
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
media-fonts/liberation-fonts
media-fonts/unifont
media-fonts/urwvn-fonts
media-libs/fontconfig
x11-apps/mkfontdir
x11-apps/mkfontscale
x11-libs/libXfont
x11-libs/libXfontcache
x11-libs/libfontenc
x11-proto/fontcacheproto
x11-proto/fontsproto
x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto
root@smoker / #

That help?

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[Paul Hartman]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> eix --installed --only-names font

apparently I went the "install them all" route :)

media-fonts/corefonts
media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-100dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-75dpi
media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1
media-fonts/font-alias
media-fonts/font-arabic-misc
media-fonts/font-bh-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-ttf
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo
media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1
media-fonts/font-cronyx-cyrillic
media-fonts/font-cursor-misc
media-fonts/font-daewoo-misc
media-fonts/font-dec-misc
media-fonts/font-ibm-type1
media-fonts/font-isas-misc
media-fonts/font-jis-misc
media-fonts/font-micro-misc
media-fonts/font-misc-cyrillic
media-fonts/font-misc-ethiopic
media-fonts/font-misc-meltho
media-fonts/font-misc-misc
media-fonts/font-mutt-misc
media-fonts/font-schumacher-misc
media-fonts/font-screen-cyrillic
media-fonts/font-sony-misc
media-fonts/font-sun-misc
media-fonts/font-util
media-fonts/font-winitzki-cyrillic
media-fonts/font-xfree86-type1
media-fonts/freefonts
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-other
media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std
media-fonts/intlfonts
media-fonts/lfpfonts-fix
media-fonts/lfpfonts-var
media-fonts/terminus-font
media-fonts/unifont
media-fonts/urw-fonts
media-fonts/x11fonts-jmk

I have KDE/GTK/Firefox etc set to use the DejaVu fonts when
available... corefonts and unifont cover just about everything else I
encounter.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendations sought for fonts

[Allan Gottlieb]

Thank you willie, dale, and paul for your suggestions.

allan