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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:44:27 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 3 | Last edited on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:17:18 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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* ''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.
-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, used for example in Maori) will be added soon.
+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.
-Information about the Bitstream Vera fonts and downloads can be found with gnomes
announcement: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
+Information about the Bitstream Vera fonts and downloads can be found with gnome's
announcement: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
-The fonts can
be installed on most versions of linux with a bit of twiddling, I imagine over the next few months they'll be intergrated into release (and updates)
for most distributions, or see our FontNotes page for links and howtos for installing fonts.
+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.
+
+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)
