Recently I've noticed that with increased support for TrueType fonts and more applications that can take advantange of them, there is a lot of confusion about what fonts can be expected to be on the system. In a quick search on linuxdoc.org, I found 4 different related HOWTOs,
Font HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html TrueType Fonts in Debian mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html TrueType Fonts with XFree86 4.0.x mini-HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html All of these have various pointers on where to get fonts and all of them mention using(stealing?) TT fonts from Microsoft Windows(tm). I'm worried that without a standard, - applications may have to assume that a font is present - applications may have to deliver the font themselves - free software applications may be dependent on non-free fonts Is this something that the LSB could solve? Is this something that the LSB should solve? Would it be approprite to define a set of DFSG free fonts that could be assumed to be on the system? I couldn't find anything on the web site about this. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
