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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 3 Last edited on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:17:18 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 very pleasant sans-serif font similar to Verdana /Helvetica.  
+__Bitstream Vera Sans Mono__:  
+ A gorgeous 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 <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  
  
-The wiki now (2003 -04 -30) uses the Bitstream Vera fonts by default (if you have them installed
+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__