"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Not exactly Debian-specific.... > > > > > > Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning > > > xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the > > > DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether > > > you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. > > > > > > It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font > > > support is sort of like "cheating", i.e. "Linux uses its own > > > native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font > > > system to it." > > > > > > Thanks for any input. > > END OF QUOTE > > > > I am running both xfs and xfstt. You can specify where X will get its > > fonts from in XF86Config. TTF fonts render much better, so it's nice > > to use them whenever you want or have to. One excellent example is > > Netscape. If you are on a network, you can set up a centralized font > > server, and point all your X servers to that server. > > > > Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to > other machines. However, xfstt or xfs-tt are really the only way to have > TT fonts displayed. Since there's no English documents for xfs-tt, I > used xfstt (which is quite easy). There's a preliminary font HOWTO > here: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/html .
Here is another great reference : http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/debian-tt.html#toc3 Cheers, Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.com http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
