Hi, Let's take Helvetica for example. Although Arial looks like Helvetica, they are not the same fonts in design; the differences in interface are somewhat noticeable given that the users have been familiar with original Helvetica font. Compared with Arial, however, Nimbus Sans L font, provided by gsfonts/gsfonts-x11 package, is the real clone of Helvetica. Using a different name is just a trademark issue. Therefore, I don't think it is a good idea to treat Arial as a replacement of Helvetica interface given that Nimbus Sans L already exists.
Well, Arial et al fonts are designed as replacements in design, but this is just a company decision of Microsoft. And in order to get rid of trademark issues, these fonts do be designed with similar but different interfaces. Why should we follow such a not-so-wise decision? p.s., for the reference of defoma aliasing functionality, I'm not familiar too. I'm sorry for that. On 8/22/07, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2007 05:27, Hongzheng Wang wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Although Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New are designed to be > > replacements for famous Times, Helvetica, and Courier, they are not > > the same fonts. After all, the differences are obviouse if the users > > are familiar with original Times, Helvetica, and Courier. In > > addition, gsfonts package has provided aliases, which are > > design-compatible with original ones and are good enough in many > > cases. So, I think msttcorefonts package had better provide a user > > decided option (prompt in configuration) for adding aliases. And, > > setting the priority to be as same as that in gsfonts might not be > > good because it will confuse users. > > I'm not eager to add a configuration question - any such question further > complicates and lengthens Debian's installation processes, so there should be > good cause. > > In this case, since the fonts were designed to be drop in replacements of the > original Times, Helvetica and Courier I do not see the problem with adding > the Aliases. Could you let me know which concrete problem you're facing? > > I may consider lowering the priority - but I haven't found a reference for > priorities yet. Do you have an indication of the scale of these priorities? > > > Thijs > > -- Hongzheng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
