On Thursday 21 June 2001 22:35, Paul D. Smith wrote: > It's a doc that describes how to get TrueType fonts set up > correctly on your Debian system. There is an older (and slightly > outdated) version for Debian 2.2/stable with XFree86 3.3.6, and the > new version I just posted for Debian testing/unstable with XFree86 > 4. > > There are some Debian packages for the actual fonts; unfortunately > they don't do everything you need to get them working. This doc is > that bit of glue. > > I'm hoping to have time to add more info to it on how to use > non-packaged TrueType fonts; as of now you have to kind of infer a > lot of stuff in that situation :-/. But, note that the Microsoft > core fonts (like Arial, etc.) do have a Debian package (in > testing/unstable). > > > http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/
Interesting documents. One font problem however that I have yet to find an answer to is this: How do you produce curly quotes (a.ka. typographical quotation marks) in Linux? In Windoze and the Mac there are well-known keyboard combinations that will produce them, something like ALT-0(###) in the former and Option-key1-key2 in the Mac. Abiword and IIRC KWord have smart quotes options, but in Linux you get just plain old inch marks. Having gotten my computer to work like a fax machine (via efax), my next step in my Linux adventure is to turn it into a DTP workstation.
