On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:16:40 +0200 n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:45:58 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote: > > Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian > > package contains this font? > > My copy of the Courier font was installed by 'texlive-fonts-recommended'. > If you want 'Courier 10pitch' instead of the original Courier, you need the > package 'xfonts-scalable'. > > The ttf-mscorefonts package from contrib mentioned before, does *not* seem to > contain the original Courier font, only Microsoft's variant 'Courier New'. > > In case you *did* mean MS's 'Courier New' instead of 'Courier': > If you need to view documents with Microsoft's Courier New , Arial or Times > New > Roman and you don't care about the fonts specifically, only that formatting > is right, you can replace them with free metric-compatible fonts: > Either (Arimo, Cousine and Tinos) from fonts-croscore or the Liberation font > family from fonts-liberation. These packages are in main. > Most programs seem to pick them up as replacements automatically, if > installed. In case this doesn't work you can alias them in your fontconfig > configuration.
Others have given you useful answers, but in terms of process, you should be trying something like this: ~$ apt-cache search courier | grep font [The apt / cli gurus can doubtless come up with better versions.] Celejar
