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Here are some pages that describe how fonts work, and how to set up nice fonts on your system.
-Note - The freetype
library (for displaying truetype
fonts) has recently started using [fontconfig|http://www.fontconfig.org]
for configuration rather than ~XftConfig, which is now obsolete..
.
+Note: the FreeType
library (for displaying TrueType
fonts) has recently started using FontConfig
for configuration rather than ~XftConfig, which is now obsolete.
-BitstreamVera is a free TrueType font specifically developed for FreeSoftware by [GNOME] and Bitstream (a company that makes fonts). They look much nicer than the default Luxi fonts (especially sans-serif) that Red Hat use, so you can replace them with a simple substitution, either system wide in /etc/fonts/local.conf or ~~/.fonts.conf for your user alone.
(Google, find this page on "
how to change the default KDE font"
please!)
+BitstreamVera is a free TrueType font specifically developed for FreeSoftware by [GNOME] and Bitstream (a company that makes fonts). They look much nicer than the default Luxi fonts (especially sans-serif) that Red Hat use, so you can replace them with a simple substitution, either system wide in <tt>
/etc/fonts/local.conf</tt>
or <tt>
~~/.fonts.conf</tt>
for your user alone. ([
Google]
, find this page on <tt>
how to change the default KDE font</tt>
please!)
<verbatim>
-
<alias>
-
<family>sans-serif</family>
-
<prefer>
-
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
-
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
-
<family>Albany AMT</family>
-
<family>Verdana</family>
-
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
-
<family>Arial</family>
-
<family>Helvetica</family>
-
</prefer>
-
</alias>
+<alias>
+
<family>sans-serif</family>
+
<prefer>
+
<family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family>
+
<family>Luxi Sans</family>
+
<family>Albany AMT</family>
+
<family>Verdana</family>
+
<family>Nimbus Sans L</family>
+
<family>Arial</family>
+
<family>Helvetica</family>
+
</prefer>
+</alias>
</verbatim>
Change the ordering to suit!
-!!Disable hinting
+!
!! Disable hinting
-Put the following into your ~/.fonts.conf to enable or disable automatic hinting. If you set it to false, fonts look very crisp. Set it to true and the
+Put the following into your <tt>~
~/.fonts.conf</tt>
to enable or disable automatic hinting. If you set it to false, fonts look very crisp. Set it to true and the
fonts look smoother.
<verbatim>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
@@ -37,26 +37,22 @@
</match>
</fontconfig>
</verbatim>
-Thanks to [GNOME Hacks|http://gnome-hacks.jodrell.net/hacks.html?id=67].
+Thanks to [GNOME Hacks | http://gnome-hacks.jodrell.net/hacks.html?id=67].
-* Using AntiAliasedFonts in graphical applications. (Laptop users might be interested in SubPixelAntiAliasing.)
-* See UnicodeNotes for hints about font support for unicode applications.
+!!! Miscellaneous Technical Notes:
-And some how-tos:
+In the <tt>fonts.dir</tt> file, you can point different encodings (charsets) to the same physical file, __BUT ONLY FOR SCALABLE FONTS__. I spent quite a while trying to determine why my characters were wrong when I tried to do this for a bitmap font (eg a 75dpi one). It is the scalable font backends that do the magic here, not X itself.
+!!! See also
+
+* Using AntiAliasedFonts in graphical applications. Laptop users might also be interested in SubPixelAntiAliasing.
+* See UnicodeNotes for hints about font support for unicode applications.
* OpenOfficeFonts to install new fonts under OpenOffice
-
-HowToFontHOWTO
] gives lots of background and overview about the different kinds of fonts (Type1, Truetype
), faces (serif, sans-serif), and basically everything you ever wanted to know.
-
-* [HowToTTXFree86
] describes setting up your X server
to use true type fonts, such as those used by MicrosoftWindows.
-
-* [HowToTTDebian
] describes true type fonts for debian
users, including viewing on screen via applications such as X, groff(1) and tex, as well as printing via ghostscript
.
-
-* The XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO ([HowToFDU] or
http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/)
is probably the most up-to-date/relevant infomation for setting up fonts under recent ([XFree86] 4) distributions.
-
-!Miscellaneous Technical Notes:
-* In the fonts.dir file, you can point different encodings (charsets) to the same physical file, __BUT ONLY FOR SCALABLE FONTS__. I spent quite a while trying to determine why my characters were wrong when I tried to do this for a bitmap font (eg a 75dpi one). It is the scalable font backends that do the magic here, not X itself
.
+* [Font HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/
] gives lots of background and overview about the different kinds of fonts ([
Type1]
, TrueType
), faces (<tt>
serif</tt>
, <tt>
sans-serif</tt>
), and basically everything you ever wanted to know.
+* [TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.x mini-HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-XFree86.html
] describes setting up your [XServer]
to use true type fonts, such as those used by MicrosoftWindows.
+* [TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TT-Debian.html
] describes true type fonts for [Debian]
users, including viewing on screen via applications such as X, groff(1) and tex, as well as printing via GhostScript
.
+* The [
XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO |
http://feenix.burgiss.net/ldp/fdu/]
is probably the most up-to-date/relevant infomation for setting up fonts under recent ([XFree86] 4) distributions.
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