Differences between version 9 and predecessor to the previous major change of BitstreamVera.
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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Wednesday, June 1, 2005 1:17:28 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Sunday, November 28, 2004 11:59:08 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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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
.
+Unfortunately
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).%%%
+There is fork of the Bitstream Vera fonts that adds many characters from other European languages. (It is a fork because the Bitstream Vera license requires them to
be distributed under a different name.) This font is called [DejaVu|http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/] - see the supported
+([list of characters|http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/dejavu/dejavu-fonts/status.txt])
.
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 <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
