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From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:04:11
Message-Id: 87twwzpfaf.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts? by "Urs Schütz"
1 Urs Schütz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch> writes:
2
3 > On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote:
4 >> walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes:
5 >>
6 >>> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>> <snip all questions I can't answer>
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro".
12 >> They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately,
13 >> they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora
14 >> installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs.
15 >>
16 >> I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It
17 >> requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
18 >> how to do that?
19 >>
20 >
21 > No need to extract them, they come with Gentoo unstable
22 >
23 > $ eix source-pro
24 > [I] media-fonts/source-pro
25
26 Cool, thank you, I'll try that tomorrow!
27
28 Is that both fonts or only Source Code Pro?
29
30
31 --
32 Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons
33 might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.

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