Perhaps, you misunderstood me :-) I'm not trying to prove msttcorefonts is useless. Instead, I just wanna say that the fonts in msttcorefonts just represent themselves, and they are not perfect replacements for well known Times, Helvetica, and Courier, especially when gsfonts/gsfonts-x11 is available. For the users who love Arial et al fonts more, they can use them directly. Why must we use Arial to provide Helvetica? On the other hand, suppose a web designer hard code Helvetica as the font name he wanna use, he would probabily wish users display the contents with Helvetica rather than Arial or something else, given that Helvetica is available.
In summary, please let gsfonts/gsfonts-x11 provide Time, Helvetica, and Courier. Please don't mix Helvetica/Arial etc. Thanks. On 8/23/07, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 23 August 2007 10:06, Hongzheng Wang wrote: > > Well, Arial et al fonts are designed as replacements in design, but > > this is just a company decision of Microsoft. And in order to get rid > > of trademark issues, these fonts do be designed with similar but > > different interfaces. Why should we follow such a not-so-wise > > decision? > > Well, the msttcorefonts package is there if you want to use those Microsoft > fonts. If you don't want those, why do you install the package? > > > > Thijs > > -- Hongzheng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
