On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:31:47 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:54:21 +0100, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Fabrizio Prosperi wrote: > >>>Thank U Holly, I've a few questions then: > >>> > >>>1) what do u mean with *real* fonts? I've this fonts > >>>under /usr/share/fonts ... > >>> > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/fonts $ ls > >>>100dpi TTF corefonts freefont misc > >>>ttf-bitstream-vera > >>>75dpi Type1 default lfp-fix ms-truetype unifont > >>>CID afms encodings lfpfonts-var sharefonts util > >>>Speedo artwiz fonts.cache-1 local terminus > >>Yes, but your screenshot shows your font preferences for Firefox, and > >>you aren't using any of those fonts. You're using 'serif', 'sans serif' > >>and 'monospace', which are corefonts, which are ugly as sin. You do know > >>you can change these to things like Bitstream Vera Serif, Bitstream Vera > >>Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, in the very dialog that is displayed in > >>your screenshot, right? > > > > Holly, > > Wrong for me. I haven't follow this thread so maybe I'm missing > > something, but I've had some font problems in the last few days since > > I threw Open Office on this machine. It seems to have changed the > > fonts Mozilla is using. > > > > In my case I have some fonts on the system: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/ > > bitmap-fonts bitstream-vera default fonts.cache-1 openoffice > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera > > fonts.cache-1 VeraBI.ttf VeraMoBd.ttf VeraMoIt.ttf VeraSeBd.ttf > > Vera.ttf > > VeraBd.ttf VeraIt.ttf VeraMoBI.ttf VeraMono.ttf VeraSe.ttf > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ > > > > but the only dropdown choices I have are serif and sans serif. > > > > - Mark > > Are you talking about OOo or Mozilla? Hopefully Mozilla, because I don't > have OOo on my system atm. > > Plus, I use Firefox, but it's not that different. > > If you look at the Firefox font config screen, the first thing it asks > you is what encoding (Western). > > Then it asks you what *kind* of font you want to use as your > Proportional font by default: serif or sans-serif. These are your > choices in variable-width font types; fixed-width fonts are generally > only used in mail, or called for by the webpage itself, so you don't get > this as an option, since no one really wants to read a webpage in > Courier 10. > > Then there are three separate dropdown menus that ask you which > *specific* font you want to use for your serif font, your sans-serif > font, and your monospace font. > > So if you say that you want webpages generally to be displayed in > sans-serif style, and then you choose Arial to be the sans serif font, > your web pages will display in Arial. If you have also chosen Times New > Roman as your serif font, you still won't see any Times New Roman-- > unless you change the style of display to Serif, in which case you won't > see any Arial, but only Times New Roman (except in those instances where > a webpage has embedded a particular font and uses that instead). > > As far as I know, Mozilla has these settings (or very similar ones) as > well; what OOo has to do with it, I don't know, but I'm almost certain > that you can change the default display font there as well, if necessary. > > Holly
Thanks Holly. This was the first good explanation I've seen on how to actually make this work. I appreciate it greatly. I'm now able to make changes and they actually show up. Stupid me for not checking all the drop down boxes. Silly mozilla.org for not making this jsut a bit clearer. (Or stupid me again!) Anyway, thanks. Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
