On 10/25/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Sure. I just meant that if he wants to get a character and not fool around with fonts for a while, install FreeFont and be done with it. > 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). Keith Packard is about to release a new version of fontconfig that has a bunch of bug fixes in it. Maybe it'll help. > 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. Interesting. I've been meaning to have a look at fontforge for a while. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
