From: "Urs Schütz" <u.schutz@bluewin.ch>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:27:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55186044.8080306@bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj6wqhsa.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de>
On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote:
> walt <w41ter@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>
>> <snip all questions I can't answer>
>>
>
> As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro".
> They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately,
> they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora
> installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs.
>
> I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It
> requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
> how to do that?
>
No need to extract them, they come with Gentoo unstable
$ eix source-pro
[I] media-fonts/source-pro
Available versions: (~)20121216^bs (~)20130316^bs (~)20141211^bs
{X cjk}
Installed versions: 20141211^bs(17:20:12 03/29/15)(X -cjk)
Homepage: http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans-pro
http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-serif-pro
http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro
Description: Adobe's open source typeface family designed
for UI environments
<snip>
Urs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-29 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 2:15 [gentoo-user] Please explain X fonts? Walter Dnes
2015-03-27 3:38 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-03-27 22:43 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-03-29 9:23 ` lee
2015-03-29 20:27 ` Urs Schütz [this message]
2015-04-02 0:03 ` lee
2015-04-02 20:48 ` Urs Schütz
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