Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
that I can install extra.

Thanks -
Richard


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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> that I can install extra.

What is a mono-font?

Doug.


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On Sunday 29 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> > that I can install extra.
>
> What is a mono-font?
>
> Doug.

fonts characters that are equally space apart from each other, and with the
same height..

Richard


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Hi Rick.

Rick, 30.07.2007 04:27:
> Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> that I can install extra.

Just search the web for a font you like. As long as they are in the usual
TrueType format, you can just drop them into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype.

My all time favorites are Monaco and Lucida Console.


Regards, Mathias

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On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:04:23PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2007 10:56:41 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:27:27PM -0400, Rick wrote:
> > > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> > > that I can install extra.
> >
> > What is a mono-font?
>
> fonts characters that are equally space apart from each other, and with the
> same height..
>

Oh, monospaced (not monochrome or monoline [as from a plotter] ). What
about those in the dejavu?? package, or in gsfonts-x11. Terminus?
Courier?

Doug.


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Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Rick, 30.07.2007 04:27:
> > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> > that I can install extra.

I'd like to mention Liberation Mono, one of the Liberation fonts provided
by RedHat. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
(BTW, Liberation Sans is looking great as the default font for GTK2 and Qt.
YMMV.)

And if you search the repositories for packages with 'font' in their name,
chances are that you'll find quite a couple that are not installed yet.

> Just search the web for a font you like. As long as they are in the usual
> TrueType format, you can just drop them into
> /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype.

I would put this a bit more general.
Type1 fonts, consisting of a .pfa or .pfb and a .afm file, work just as
well. I suppose the new .otf or Open Type fonts will also work, I just
haven't tried them yet.

One could put them into subdirectories of /usr/local/share/fonts, such as:

/usr/local/share/fonts/type1
/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/local/share/fonts/whatever

and they will still be found there.

Probably even better/easier, install fonts per user, not system wide, by
putting them into ~/.fonts, or in subdirectories thereof, as above.

BTW, I was quite surprised to see that in Lenny the fonts are immediately
available, just by putting them into these directories. Not sure if it
works this way in Etch yet???

> My all time favorites are Monaco and Lucida Console.

Mine is definitely Lucida Sans Typewriter. ;-)


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Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Rick, 30.07.2007 04:27:
> > Wonder, if there are any good mono-fonts for debian,
> > that I can install extra.

I'd like to mention Liberation Mono, one of the Liberation fonts provided
by RedHat. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
(BTW, Liberation Sans is looking great as the default font for GTK2 and Qt.
YMMV.)

And if you search the repositories for packages with 'font' in their name,
chances are that you'll find quite a couple that are not installed yet.

> Just search the web for a font you like. As long as they are in the usual
> TrueType format, you can just drop them into
> /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype.

I would put this a bit more general.
Type1 fonts, consisting of a .pfa or .pfb and a .afm file, work just as
well. I suppose the new .otf or Open Type fonts will also work, I just
haven't tried them yet.

One could put them into subdirectories of /usr/local/share/fonts, such as:

/usr/local/share/fonts/type1
/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/local/share/fonts/whatever

and they will still be found there.

Probably even better/easier, install fonts per user, not system wide, by
putting them into ~/.fonts, or in subdirectories thereof, as above.

BTW, I was quite surprised to see that in Lenny the fonts are immediately
available, just by putting them into these directories. Not sure if it
works this way in Etch yet???

> My all time favorites are Monaco and Lucida Console.

Mine is definitely Lucida Sans Typewriter. ;-)


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