Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

I'm not sure about their FOSS credentials, but there is a good quantity of free candidates at http://www.fontspace.com/category/old%20english CPKS -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-08-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread:

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

Hi Clive, > Installation said put it in the /usr/shares/font folder You'll probably find creating a ~/.fonts directory and putting the foo.ttf, etc., in there also works allowing a user to look after their own additional fonts. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-08-02

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

Hi All Well thanks for the suggestion and I'll be looking at them all later. Last night I found an 'Old English' font for free so thought I'd try it. Download went OK but trying to 'see' it after installing did not work, yes it was there nut not showing any programmes or front viewer.

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

> On 9 Jul 2016, at 13:41, Terry Coles wrote: > > Clive hasn't shown us an example of the 'Old English' that he needs, but > looking at the > examples on the Internet it looks like whoever named it had no idea that the > font that he > had created looks like the one

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

Dowh! I got the quoting wrong ;-( On Saturday, 9 July 2016 13:27:16 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > "Gothic" is another common description of this style to help your > search. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_font Except that the Goths were a Germanic tribe, not Old English See

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 13:27:16 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Old English Except that the Goths were a Germanic tribe, not Old English :-) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic[1] Clive hasn't shown us an example of the 'Old English' that he needs, but looking at the examples on the

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

Hi Clive, > > Does any one know if there is a Linux (open source) equivalent font > > to 'Old English'? > > UnifrakturCook (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/UnifrakturCook) and > UnifrakturMaguntia > (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/UnifrakturMaguntia) are vaguely > similar open source

Re: [Dorset] Alternative fonts

> On 8 Jul 2016, at 20:04, C Wills wrote: > > Does any one know if there is a Linux (open source) equivalent font to 'Old > English'? Recently had to make some alterations to a document which had it’s > heading in Old English and that was converted to 'Times New Roman'