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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|http://www.fontconfig.org] 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).
+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!)
-Using AntiAliasedFonts in graphical applications.
+<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>
+</verbatim>
-Laptop users might be interested in SubPixelAntiAliasing.
+Change the ordering to suit!
-See UnicodeNotes for hints about font support for unicode applications.
+!!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
+fonts look smoother.
+
+<verbatim>
+<?xml version="1."?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
+ <bool>true</bool>
+ </edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
+</verbatim>
+
+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.
And some how-tos:
* OpenOfficeFonts to install new fonts under OpenOffice
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* 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.
+
+----
+[CategoryXFree86Notes]
