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Newer page: version 11 Last edited on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:38:31 am by AristotlePagaltzis
Older page: version 9 Last edited on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 1:17:28 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
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-[GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] recently got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects. The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera fontset , which can be downloaded and installed on any system you want. 
+In 2003, [GNOME] and [Bitstream | http://www.bitstream.com/] got together to make some [Free] fonts for OpenSource projects. The effort resulted in the high quality BitstreamVera font set , which can be downloaded and installed on any system you want. The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:  
  
-The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:  
- __Bitstream Vera Serif__:  
- A serif font similar to Times .  
-__Bitstream Vera Sans__:  
- A very pleasant sans-serif font similar to Verdana/Helvetica.  
-__Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__:  
- A gorgeous monospace font slightly similar to Terminal. 
+* __Bitstream Vera Serif__: a serif font most similar to Georgia .  
+* __Bitstream Vera Sans__: a very pleasant sans-serif font. It is similar to Verdana/Helvetica, but wider and warmer .  
+* __Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__: a gorgeous monospace font slightly similar to Terminal. 
  
-Unfortunately at the current version 1.10 the fonts only contain the characters from iso_8859_15(7)/Western Europe charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (''A macron'', used for example in Māori).%%%  
-There is fork of the Bitstream Vera fonts that adds many characters from other European languages. (It is a fork because the Bitstream Vera license requires them to be distributed under a different name.) This font is called [DejaVu|http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/] - see the supported  
-([list of characters|http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/dejavu/dejavu-fonts/status.txt])
+The wiki uses the BitstreamVera fonts if you have them installed
  
-Information about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads can be found with [GNOME's announcement | http://www.gnome.org/fonts/]. The wiki uses the BitstreamVera fonts if you have them installed
+For more information about the BitstreamVera fonts and downloads see the [GNOME's announcement | http://www.gnome.org/fonts/]. 
  
-Most distributions should have a package for the BitstreamVera fontset . If yours doesn 't , see FontNotes for links and howtos on how to install them manually . If you want to check to see if they are installed correctly and how they look on your computer, run <tt>xfontsel< /tt>, select <tt>bitstream< /tt> from the <tt>fndry< /tt> (foundry) dropdown and <tt>bitstream vera</tt> from the <tt>fmly</tt> (family) dropdown . For the following distributions, the package is called  
-  
-DebianLinux:  
- __ttf-bitstream-vera__ ( in Testing/sarge and Unstable/sid)  
-RedHat rawhide:  
- __bitstream-vera-fonts__  
- [Slackware ] 9 .1:  
- __ttf-bitstream-vera-1 .10-noarch-2__  
+The BitstreamVera 1 .10 family contains only characters from [iso_8859_15(7)] ie. Western European charsets, lacking support for characters such as "ā" (''A macron' ', used for example in Māori) . There is a fork called [DejaVu | http: //dejavu.sourceforge.net /] which aims to cover as much of [Unicode] as feasible while remaining true to the feel and proportion of the original . (It had to be given a different name because the licence demands this to permit the distribution of modifications.) Nowadays, ~DejaVu is the preferred family; in fact, some LinuxDistribution~s no longer provide [Package ]s of Vera, only of ~DejaVu . If you are using such a distro and want/need Vera as well for some reason, you can following the instructions in FontNotes to install Vera manually