On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:09:22PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > You need more fonts. See the Xft section here: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.html#fonts > > Installing FreeFont should give you (ugly) characters for nearly > everything you find. > Last time I looked, the TTF version of FreeFont was pretty nasty (sizes too small), but still a necessary fallback for obscure characters (e.g. some of the Lappish glyphs). I didn't think it helped with whitespace, but I could be mistaken. But, unless you are using really uncommon European glyphs (which I do, e.g. in testing sigma-consolefonts) there is likely to be a more pleasant version of the glyph in a different font.
Of course, with recent freetype/fontconfig and a wide range of fonts, it isn't easy to determine which font is actually providing the whitespace variants - it all works _much_ more nicely than it used to (although still a bit patchy in e.g. some Asian glyphs). A more recent version of FreeFont is much nicer (e.g. debian use a pull from CVS or subversion or whatever the project is using), but needs 'fontforge' to produce TTFs. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
