Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:44:52 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing Message-ID: <200306120144.52725.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <bc7hsh$p2$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org> <200306120024.44883.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <bc7hsh$p2$1@main.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:01, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: [...] > > This knocks a big hole in my argument -- Courier is a fixed width fon= t. > > Oh. It is? Ok... > > > I have in the past installed true-type fonts from windows and never > > noticed any problems except with the strange ones (windings and the l= ike) > > for which the encodings got lost somewhere along the way. In those da= ys > > that required a third party true-type font server -- it was not suppl= ied > > with XFree. > > > > But now-a-days I find I have a good range of fonts some of which I > > consider make the Microsoft true-types look rather mediocre. So to re= duce > > confusion I've given up on the Microsoft ones. I find the Ghostscript > > fonts quite useful, and in any case I have them on the system to supp= ort > > ghostscript and printing -- so one might as well connect them up to X= =2E > > Are any of these fonts free? Point me to them and I'll try them out. > Courier New (for normal text) and Andale Mono (for code) are the best f= onts > I've found so far. If there are better fonts out there, then I'll give = 'em > a try. If you have the gnu distribution of ghostscript installed (which is free)= then you prbably already have them in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts compl= ete with a valid fonts.dir file. Just add it to your X windows list. As for quality -- a lot is personal preference but also affected by scree= n=20 resolution in terms of pixels per inch (120 dpi here) and the actual=20 resolving capability of the monitor. So I don't want to argue which is be= st=20 for you. I seem to recall that it is also possible to install Knut's computer mode= rn fonts from the TeX package, and that these are pretty good. Malcolm=20
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