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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 04:31:27PM -0400, Penguin Lover Allan Gottlieb squawked: |
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> I suspect I am missing some useful fonts as various web pages have funny |
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> chars and would appreciate suggestions as to which ones to emerge. |
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> My current list follows. Thanks in advance for any help. |
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> allan |
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> allan gottlieb # eix --installed --only-names font |
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> media-fonts/corefonts |
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> media-fonts/font-adobe-100dpi |
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> media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi |
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> media-fonts/font-adobe-utopia-type1 |
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> media-fonts/font-alias |
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> media-fonts/font-bh-type1 |
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> media-fonts/font-cursor-misc |
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> media-fonts/font-misc-misc |
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> media-fonts/font-util |
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> media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std |
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You probably want unifont, which is a bitmap font, but has the most |
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extensive coverage of unicode characters. Otherwise, dejavu covers a |
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reasonably large set of Western characters in unicode, but looks a bit |
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nicer as it is TrueType (if I remember correctly). |
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