[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: Font configuration

[Hubert Chan]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:37:05 +0300, Stanislav Tsekhmistroh said:

> Hubert Chan wrote:
>> I've changed the PostScript names in the Vera and Free* .nfont files
>> provided with gnustep-back on my system, and printing does seem to
>> work better -- at least Ghostscript shows the right fonts now.
>> 
>> But now the defaults database needs to be changed, since it
>> references the fonts by PostScript name, which are now changed, and
>> so all the fonts revert to the ugly defaults instead of the nice Vera
>> fonts until I change the defaults.  (If you want to see what I mean,
>> and you've changed your default fonts to the Vera fonts, install the
>> gnustep-back-common deb package from
>> <http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/debian/gnustep/packages/gnustep-back/>.)

> I will test this, thank you.

Please use the packages that are currently in sid instead.  The packages
in sid are now updated with the defoma script.

> I agree that defoma script would be the best solution at this stage,
> since this is the only way to unify font usage for Debian.

> Regretfully, there are another ways of doing this in another Linuxes
> and *nixes. So this problem should be solved N times for N different
> distros.

I think that .nfont is only used by the art backend.  When the cairo
backend is stable, I think that it will use the normal fontconfig
mechanism to get the fonts.

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