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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: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:49:24
Message-Id: 551DAB2B.5020301@bluewin.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Please explain X fonts? by lee
1 On 04/01/15 21:03, lee wrote:
2 > Urs Schütz <u.schutz@×××××××.ch> writes:
3 >
4 >> On 03/29/15 06:23, lee wrote:
5 >>> walt <w41ter@×××××.com> writes:
6 >>>
7 >>>> On 03/26/2015 07:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>> <snip all questions I can't answer>
10 >>>>
11 >>>
12 >>> As to fonts, I highly recommend "Source Code Pro" and "Source Sans Pro".
13 >>> They finally resolved my long search for good fonts. Unfortunately,
14 >>> they don't come with Gentoo. I copied them over from a Fedora
15 >>> installation, so you might be able to extract them from their RPMs.
16 >>>
17 >>> I haven't been able to create them from their sources, though. It
18 >>> requires some special program which didn't work. Maybe someone knows
19 >>> how to do that?
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> No need to extract them, they come with Gentoo unstable
23 >>
24 >> $ eix source-pro
25 >> [I] media-fonts/source-pro
26 >
27 > Cool, thank you, I'll try that tomorrow!
28 >
29 > Is that both fonts or only Source Code Pro?
30 >
31 >
32
33 It is both fonts, in different weights.