[H-GEN] Font Tomfoolery

[Robert Kearey]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

> Does anyone know the name or location of a sans-serif monospace or
> constant-width font (NOT proportional!) font suitable for use for
> everyday editing---say, as the main font for use in Emacs?

> jason, downloading the Bitstream Vera fonts now, but getting what I
>        want without screwing around with TTF and so on would be nice

What's to screw around with? If you've got fontconfig, just copy them to 
~/.fonts, run fc-cache and you're done. Even using xfs etc it's easy to 
install them.

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