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Here are some pages that describe how fonts work, and how to set up nice fonts on your system.
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+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...
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+BitstreamVera is a free TrueType font specifically developed for FreeSoftware by [GNOME] and Bitstream (a company that makes fonts).
Using AntiAliasedFonts in graphical applications.
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+Laptop users might be interested in SubPixelAntiAliasing.
See UnicodeNotes for hints about font support for unicode applications.
And some how-tos:
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+* 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.
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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.
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+!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.
