Philip Webb schreef: > 050831 Martin S wrote: > >> Is there a font management app that's good under Linux? to see what >> the fonts look like > > > Gfontview & Gucharmap (both in Portage); Xfd & Xfontsel (both part of > Xorg). > > >> and be able to install what's not installed. > > > Well, this is Gentoo, so you use 'emerge' to install things ... > (grin). > > Apart from the basic media-libs/freetype , the other font packages > are in /usr/portage/media-fonts . >
And of course, you can download fonts from any of those font collection pages on the net and extract/copy them into /usr/share/fonts/TTF (assuming they're truetype, naturally), run fc-cache and they'll work fine. I had an attack of fontmania recently myself, looking for 'nice' fonts that weren't ComicSansMS that actually had ë, ö, ¤ (that's the Euro symbol, if you can't see it), and *also* had bold and italic variants (which was the problem). It's almost enough to make me wish I spoke/wrote CJK-- there are a lot more complete fonts for Asian languages (and they're much easier to find), than truly complete sets for ISO8859-15. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
