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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:59:08 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 7 Last edited on Friday, November 14, 2003 12:34:15 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. 
  
 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 Verdana/Helvetica  
-; __Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__ : a monospace font slightly similar to Terminal 
+__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.  
  
 Unfortunely 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). Hopefully these will be added soon. 
  
 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. 
  
-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 
+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 
  
-;; [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__ 
+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__