[H-GEN] Font Tomfoolery

[David Starkoff]

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At 2003-06-13T00:41-0400, 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?

I understand that Anonymous
<http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html> has support in
certain quarters, see
<http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2002_12_01_archive.html#90007039>.  But
compare with the entry immediately above it (although I suspect you
won't have Monaco available).

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

My recollection was that recent XFree86 versions had pretty good
TrueType integration.  Enable the freetype module, and the X server
itself could even serve the fonts.  Recent Red Hat releases also had
an xfs that grokked TrueType.  Certainly much better than the days
of xfstt (which invariably didn't come standard).

Combine the Microsoft Web Core fonts[1] with Xft anti-aliasing, and
Web browsing under X was beautiful.  The smooth curves of Verdana; the
elegant lines of Georgia...

David.

[1] Back in the days when Microsoft was still performing this public
    service.

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