From: Alan W. I. <ir...@be...> - 2004-12-10 18:22:29
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On 2004-12-10 18:22+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2004-12-10 09:05]: > >> I plan to remedy that if you feel the free fonts are even in the same class >> with the MS ones based on your honest comparisons using PLplot examples. If >> you can confirm they are in the same class, what is the recipe for using >> the free replacement fonts on Debian testing? I will need package name, >> directory, and font names. > > $ apt-cache search --names-only ^ttf- > $ dpkg -L ttf-freefont | fgrep .ttf That's a partial answer to my question which avoids the important part. You previously asserted that the free solution was as good as the MS one. Can you honestly confirm that from your own experience? Appearance matters big-time for scientific publications so I don't want to compromise that. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin email: ir...@be... phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ |