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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Friday, November 14, 2003 12:34:15 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, used for example in Maori
) will be added soon.
+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 Bitstream Vera
fonts and downloads can be found with gnomes
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 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
.
+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
-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__
