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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Friday, November 14, 2003 11:39:06 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:44:27 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-[GNOME] and Bitstream recently got together to make some Free fonts for open source operating systems
. They came up with
the Bitstream Vera
fontset. These
can be downloaded and installed on your Operating System (if it be Linux/Windows/MacOS etc) and
you'll have the use of some nice, high quality Free fonts
.
+[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
.
The set consists of the following TrueType fonts:
-* ''bitstream vera serif'',
a serif font similar to Times,
-* ''bitstream vera sans'',
a sans-serif font similar to Arial
/Helvatica, and
-* ''bitstream vera sans mono'',
a monospace font slightly similar to Terminal.
+; __Bitstream Vera Serif__ :
a serif font similar to Times
+; __Bitstream Vera Sans__ :
a sans-serif font similar to Verdana
/Helvetica
+; __Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__ :
a monospace font slightly similar to Terminal
-At
the moment (
version 1.10 of
the fonts) they
only contain the characters from 8859-1
/Western Europe charsets, which is unfortunate. Hopefully
support for other
characters (
such as "A macron" (ā)
, used for example in Maori) will be added soon.
+Unfortunely at
the current
version 1.10 the fonts only contain the characters from 8859-15
/Western Europe charsets, lacking
support for characters such as "ā" (''
A macron''
, used for example in Maori). Hopefully these
will be added soon.
-Information about the Bitstream Vera
fonts and downloads can be found with gnome
's announcement:
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
+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.
-The fonts
should be nicely packaged
for most distributions
, or
see our
FontNotes page
for links and howtos for
manually installing fonts
. If you use [Debian] Testing (sarge) or Unstable
(sid
) you can simply do:
- apt-get install ttf-
bitstream-
vera
-The RedHat
(rawhide
) package is named bitstream-vera-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 __xfontsel__, select "bitstream" from the ''fndry''
(foundry
) dropdown and "
bitstream vera" from the ''fmly''
(family
) dropdown. For the following distributions, the
package is called
-If you want to check to see if they are installed correctly and how they look on your computer, run "xfontsel", from the foundary (fndry) dropdown select "
bitstream" and from the family
(fmly
) dropdown select on of the "
bitstream vera"
fonts.
-
-The wiki now (2003
-04
-30) uses the Bitstream Vera fonts by default (if you have them installed)
+;; [Debian] : __ttf-
bitstream-vera__
(in Testing/sarge and Unstable/sid
)
+;; RedHat rawhide : __
bitstream-
vera-
fonts__
+;; [Slackware] 9.1 : __ttf
-bitstream
-vera-1.10-noarch-2__
