Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > Quoting Joe Pfeiffer (pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu): > > >> Looks interesting -- I've been using Terminus for quite a while -- it's > >> another fixed-width programmer-friendly font, Comparing it with > >> Anonymous Pro, it seems a bit narrows and doesn't seem to have as much > ^^^^^^^narrower > >> variation in apparent weight (Anonymous Pro's W is so much darker than > >> the other characters on a line I'm looking at that it looks like it's in > >> Bold!). > > > > So you've installed it? Are you using it in a VC or an xterm? > > > > I'm not sure how you would use it: the package contains four TTF files > > and that's it. > > I appear to have installed at some point; I tend to just install the > fonts that come up in the repository without thinking about it. > > I tried it in an xterm (more specifically, xfce4-terminal). I just > went to the preference's editor, saw that it was one of the font > options, and switched to it. All the text in all my terminal windows > was suddenly in Anonymous Pro.
Well, it's defeated me. Doing anything with fonts is always frustrating. For years I used Computer Modern, then Palatino because, with respect, it looked less like a Knuth textbook. IIRC it was texlive which meant I had to find out that Palatino is now "TeX Gyre Pagella", whatever that means. I use dpkg-reconfigure console-setup to set a console font. You don't get much choice. I suppose it's just what's in /usr/share/consolefonts/ though I never get offered unifont even though I have /usr/share/consolefonts/Unifont-APL8x16.psf.gz from package psf-unifont which is PSF (console) version of GNU Unifont with APL support. So I stick to Terminus on the console. I'll make the observation that using dpkg-reconfigure console-setup on a real VC while X is running is a no-no. You really have to exit X altogether. Moving on to X, well on the whole I just install a load of fonts on the basis that applications will find and use them. But how you find out what a font is, and then change it, that's beyond me. In Xterm, I'm fairly happy just so long as I can find a string like -jmk-Neep-Medium-R-Normal--20-180-75-75-C-100-ISO10646-1 or 8x13 associated with the font. But I can't try Anonymous Pro because xlsfonts shows no such string. But take, for example, the font that iceweasel uses to display the address of a link when you hover over it. It's very small and spindly, and makes the characters "rn" look exactly like "m". I often have to fire up xzoom to take a closer look. Anyway, I looked at https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts after "installing" ttf-anonymous-pro. I can see the four files with fc-list, and I ran fc-cache -fv for luck. I ran $ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config and $ dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig [sic] but had to do so as root, obviously. I haven't a clue what the prompts are talking about. I find sections like: Font Formats ttf, otf, bdf, pfb, fnt, woff totally unenlightening. The https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/FAQ appears to be a historical document. https://wiki.debian.org/TrueType says everything will just happen automatically without actually saying *what* happens automatically. So I'd be very interested to know, having installed ttf-anonymous-pro, how to actually use it. Sorry to ramble but, because I can't grasp any pattern to linux fonts, I can't organise my thoughts/findings/intentions in any logical order. The mess is contagious. Cheers, David.
