On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 3:33 PM home user wrote:
> I have a few minutes to come back to this.
>
> It seems to me that the font tools do not have a minor bug. Rather, they
> were probably fine years ago when fonts were fewer and generally
> simpler. Now there are more fonts, and they seem to be mo
I have a few minutes to come back to this.
It seems to me that the font tools do not have a minor bug. Rather, they
were probably fine years ago when fonts were fewer and generally
simpler. Now there are more fonts, and they seem to be more
complicated. So either the font tools need major en
On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 2:14 AM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> A font viewer should only use the system font folders and any modern
> font viewer will use fontconfig, which won't be looking in random
> directories.
>
The fontconfig system has a well defined way to configure the directories
it searches,
On Tue, 2022-05-24 at 22:14 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> A font viewer should only use the system font folders and any modern
> font viewer will use fontconfig, which won't be looking in random
> directories.
It's not really random directories, though. There's the everyone's
fonts in a system lo
On 5/24/22 19:39, Tim via users wrote:
Tim: [re duplicates of some fonts]
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf
/usr/share/fonts/urw
Tim: [re duplicates of some fonts]
>> That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
>>
>> [tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.otf
>> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold
On 5/24/22 1:28 PM, home user wrote:
On 5/23/22 10:09 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/
On 5/24/22 4:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/24/22 12:41, home user wrote:
On 5/24/22 12:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
[... snip ...]
I don't see the problem, but if you really have a problem with how th
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 1:18 AM Tim via users
wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
> > are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
>
> That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
>
> [tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
> /usr/share/fonts/urw-base3
On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 4:41 PM home user wrote:
> On 5/24/22 12:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> >>> You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
> >>> they are different. Reg
On 5/24/22 12:41, home user wrote:
On 5/24/22 12:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
T
On 5/23/22 21:09, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
/u
On 5/24/22 12:31 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
That's how I knew they were 4 differe
On 5/23/22 10:09 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
On 5/23/22 22:45, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
Terrible GUI design if it doesn't give you some indication that the
name's bee
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 21:23 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> You're not seeing the whole name. If you click on them, you'll see
> they are different. Regular and 3 types of condensed.
Terrible GUI design if it doesn't give you some indication that the
name's been truncated. Are users supposed to aro
On 5/23/22 13:05, home user wrote:
notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans". They are different from each other.
Notice 4 fonts called "Noto Sans, Bold". They are different from each
other. There are other examples. This is only my opinion, but they
should have different names. Is the problem in
On Mon, 2022-05-23 at 14:05 -0600, home user wrote:
> are some fonts actually on my work station twice?
That can happen. Different things may provide those fonts.
[tim@rocky ~]$ locate NimbusMonoPS-Bold
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bold.afm
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/NimbusMonoPS-Bo
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