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From: "Urs Schütz" <u.schutz@×××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 20:28:04
Message-Id: 55186044.8080306@bluewin.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts? by lee
1 On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote:
2 > walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 >> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
5 >>
6 >> <snip all questions I can't answer>
7 >>
8 >
9 > As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro".
10 > They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately,
11 > they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora
12 > installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs.
13 >
14 > I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It
15 > requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
16 > how to do that?
17 >
18
19 No need to extract them, they come with Gentoo unstable
20
21 $ eix source-pro
22 [I] media-fonts/source-pro
23 Available versions: (~)20121216^bs (~)20130316^bs (~)20141211^bs
24 {X cjk}
25 Installed versions: 20141211^bs(17:20:12 03/29/15)(X -cjk)
26 Homepage: http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-sans-pro
27 http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-serif-pro
28 http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro
29 Description: Adobe's open source typeface family designed
30 for UI environments
31
32 <snip>
33
34 Urs

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