LIberation Fonts

If room remains on the installation CD, please include the open source
Liberation Fonts. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:23:54 UTC, Felix Miata wrote:

> If room remains on the installation CD, please include the open source
> Liberation Fonts. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

I would say that a decent set of unicode fonts would be much better. 
Like the DejaVu set from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu> or 
maybe Freefont from <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/>. 
Especially because then I would know that a wide user base uses these 
sets and could add them to the Mozilla default configuration.
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On 15.11.07 23:07, Peter Weilbacher wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:23:54 UTC, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> If room remains on the installation CD, please include the open
>> source Liberation Fonts. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/
>
> I would say that a decent set of unicode fonts would be much better.
> Like the DejaVu set from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu> or
> maybe Freefont from <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/>.
> Especially because then I would know that a wide user base uses
> these sets and could add them to the Mozilla default configuration.

Yes, the DevaVu set is an improvement of the Bitstream Vera set. It's
well known in the TeX scene. A standard user probably won't notice a
difference -- BTW, I did so.

I hear from the Liberation set here the first time, but maybe I've
missed some evolution?

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On 2007/11/15 22:07 (GMT-0500) Peter Weilbacher apparently typed:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:23:54 UTC, Felix Miata wrote:

>> If room remains on the installation CD, please include the open source
>> Liberation Fonts. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

> I would say that a decent set of unicode fonts would be much better. 

Better depends on context, and that some other might be better for some
purposes is no reason to exclude something so small. The fully extracted set
is a mere 1M in size.

The OS2/eCS font management system is such a miserable PITA that as many free
fonts as possible should be installed by default, in order that users as
little as possible should find it necessary to add fonts commonly available
by default elsewhere.

> Like the DejaVu set from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu> or


DejaVu was added already on the 2B3 CD. However, 3 are missing from the full
set, as the miserable font management system is broken with regard to
installing them. There's an open eCS bug ticket on this.

> maybe Freefont from <http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/>.

> Especially because then I would know that a wide user base uses these 
> sets and could add them to the Mozilla default configuration.

For those who wish fonts that closely match the default web browser fonts
that windoz users see, Liberation is a nice compact choice. Liberation Sans
is virtually indistinguishable from Arial. Liberation Serif is virtually
indistinguishable from Times New Roman. Liberation Sans is a close match to
Lucida Console, and both are vastly superior to Courier/Courier New, which is
what Freemono matches. There must be something unfavorable about the
Freemono, maybe the license, to lead RedHat to create Liberation instead of
using the older Freemono. You can easily compare those you have installed by
using http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-comps-freefont
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On 2007/11/15 23:36 (GMT+0100) Andreas Schnellbacher apparently typed:

>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:23:54 UTC, Felix Miata wrote:

>>> If room remains on the installation CD, please include the open
>>> source Liberation Fonts. https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

> I hear from the Liberation set here the first time, but maybe I've
> missed some evolution?

See also http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/
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