I think gentoo needs a good font how-to. Setting up fonts is pretty annoying, and even for a person that has been using linux for 3 + years has problems gettings fonts to look good in mozilla and konqueror. I think we need a good font howto that will allow users to get a perfect font setup in linux. I know there is freetype truetype, microsoft truetype, and tons of other fonts and every one I talk to always have problems with fonts in linux. The how-to should talk about xfree86 and how fonts are install and how to get AA fonts in Mozilla and Konq. We have a printer how-to but now we need a font howto:) And since Microsoft stoped distrubuting the Microsoft TrueType fonts, will it still be availible to Gentoo? because some how I got them installed... in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ I think we are allowed to have a ebuild as long as the Licence is displayed.... thanks, I would write the how-to but I really wouldnt know where to start..
as Ms. Poppins once said, "start at the very beginning"
you might want to check the one I wrote a while ago: http://www.skrzyp.prv.pl/gnome2_fonts_HOWTO.html it's a little bit outta date (microsoft issue), but it could be a start...
looks good, for a starting point. It'd be nice to be able to generalise to non-gnome windowing environments as well... (also, what are the licenses like on the M$ fonts?)
Eric - Have fun ;-) If you *really* cant do this, please tell me, and I will assign it to someone else. //ZhEN
Go at this one - Happy Hacking, //ZhEN
Any progress or changes? Maybe posters to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4825&highlight=font can be involved in writing?
Hi all, I'm the author of a X.org fonts HOWTO, which you can find at this link http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts. I was contacted to make a proper HOWTO for Gentoo. If you want, I can. That is, I can transfer my HOWTO into a Gentoo HOWTO, but my trouble is that it is only a way to make fonts work almost certainly, because it is based on my tryings and I'm not sure that this will work in every case. So just tell me if this is ok, I'll be happy to make it a HOWTO for gentoo.org. Cheers, solka
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