Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread IL Ka
Hi. You are using a slightly inaccurate terminology. ``tty`` is a kernel subsystem that supports terminals. Terminal could be * hardware device connected to the serial port, * virtual terminal -- so-called vty that runs on top of virtual console which is emulated by kernel using your videocard a

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:33 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:01:48PM +, Long Wind wrote: > > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice but it's ugly in stretch > how > > to set font? Thanks! > > As sudo / root equivalent: >

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 05:33:57PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:02 PM Long Wind wrote: > > > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice > > but it's ugly in stretch > > how to set font? Thanks! > > > > I believe that t

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021, 5:02 PM Long Wind wrote: > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice > but it's ugly in stretch > how to set font? Thanks! > I believe that this is done through Frame Buffer settings. The reason why this is fresh on my mind, is that I recently got a Ga

Re: how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 09:01:48PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i think terminal font used by jessie is nice but it's ugly in stretch how > to set font? Thanks! As sudo / root equivalent: dpkg-reconfigure console-setup should work. [Please consider moving to something later than

how to change terminal (tty) font?

2021-06-27 Thread Long Wind
i think terminal font used by jessie is nicebut it's ugly in stretchhow to set font? Thanks!

RESOLVED: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 08:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. There is a bug in MATE Terminal 1.16.3 [used in Debian 9] which prevents sett

At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal]

2021-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/23/2021 04:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out col

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-23 Thread Siard
Richard Owlett: > Siard: > > In the MATE Terminal settings (Edit > Profile Preferences), > > tab 'Colors', under 'Palette', set 'Built-in schemes' to 'Custom' > > and change every color in the color palette to black. > > > > Here is a screenshot: > > https://i.postimg.cc/2yv17y3Y/mateterminalcolor

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful.

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 03:13:00 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/6/21 2:39 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation > > > >

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 03:13:00AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Funnily enough, given what you contend, before I commented out the colouring > in stuff, when running ls -lh, directory names were displayed in blue text, > and, after I commented out the colouring in stuff, running ls -lh, the > output

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 08:35:42 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/22/2021 08:24 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have vision problems. > > > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > > > The program I'm running give

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/6/21 2:39 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere. Excerpt from .bashrc file:

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richmond
Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 6/22/21 9:17 AM, Richmond wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> I have vision problems. >>> I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. >>> The program I'm running gives out colored text. >>> The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. >>> Help please. >>> >>> >> On the menu b

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation > > of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere. > Excerpt from .bashrc file: > > " > > # set a fancy prompt (no

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:17AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: And, that also applies, if provision for coloured text is commented out, in the .bashrc file. There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation of color escape sequences.

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:17AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > And, that also applies, if provision for coloured text is commented out, in > the .bashrc file. There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere. It's entirely bet

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/6/21 12:17 am, Richmond wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. On the menu bar of mate-terminal, select Edit -> Profile Prefere

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/6/21 11:34 pm, David Wright wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if there were a debian-mate list. Oh, look, there it is! https://lists.debian.org/debian-mate/ Cheers, David. In viewing the published list archive for that list, all of the messages this year, appear to be announce messages f

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 6/22/21 9:17 AM, Richmond wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. On the menu bar of mate-terminal, select Edit -> Profile Prefer

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Siard
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have vision problems. > > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > > Help please. > >

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richmond
Richard Owlett wrote: > I have vision problems. > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > Help please. > > On the menu bar of mate-terminal, select Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Colours Uncheck the

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 17:32:55 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have vision problems. > > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > > Help ple

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 15:32, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-22 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/22/2021 08:47 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-22 14:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MAT

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread IL Ka
One more idea: install xterm (``apt install xterm``) and run it with ``-cm`` $ xterm -cm that means "do not recognize color esc. sequences" Everything is b&w there

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have vision problems. > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > Help please. This has already been addressed before: you must change the color sc

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 14:55, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/22/2021 08:47 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-22 14:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help pleas

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Curt
On 2021-06-22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Of course, I have no idea what Richard's actual program is, so here's > a half-hearted apology for possibly highjacking a thread. (Note: I'm > in rxvt-unicode, not MATE terminal.) (Sorry.) > It's cht.sh (in local mode), and he's going about things bass-ac

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread IL Ka
> > > unicorn:~$ sudo TERM=xterm-mono apt update > > Nope. Not that one either. Some apps ignore the number of colors from the terminfo. Their authors believe there are no colorless monitors. Vim and bash works, however $ TERM=xterm-mono vim $ TERM=xterm-mono bash (no color prompt)

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 08:47 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-22 14:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. Has the monitor got any controls on it

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 14:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. Has the monitor got any controls on it ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 04:21:35PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > try > $ TERM=xterm-mono [your_program] /me tries unicorn:~$ TERM=xterm-mono sudo apt update Nope. No luck there. unicorn:~$ sudo TERM=xterm-mono apt update Nope. Not that one either. If Debian's APT team is trying their very, very har

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 08:24 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. Richard,

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 08:21 AM, IL Ka wrote: try $ TERM=xterm-mono [your_program] didn't work :{ On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 4:14 PM Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:14:08AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have vision problems. > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > Help please. > > Richard, What's the program? For some Xterms, t

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread IL Ka
try $ TERM=xterm-mono [your_program] On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 4:14 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I have vision problems. > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. > The program I'm running gives out colored text. > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. > Help please. > > >

Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please.

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
FWIW, "proportional" or "typographic" would be more conventional terms than "variable pitch." -- JHHL (Feel free to visit me some Saturday at the International Printing Museum. After COVID-19 is no longer an existential threat, but merely a minor nuisance.)

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 21:40:17 +0100 wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:26:16AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > From: > > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a > > > non-monosp

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread Joe
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:26:16 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a > > non-monospaced font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully > > know... &

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:26:16AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced > > font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know... > &

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-18 Thread peter
From: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:08:05 +0100 > So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced > font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know... OK, the meaning in CSS is more than the conventional meaning. For varispaced and serifed, &qu

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:52:33AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100 > > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best > > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so: > > >

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread peter
From: Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100 > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so: > > font-family: serif Will try that, thanks. Really, two attributes are involved

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-17 Thread peter
From: Darac Marjal Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:26:54 + > ... worth looking at the W3C's recommendations for "Web Safe Fonts". Helpful link. Thanks Darac, ... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479Bcc: peter at easthope. ca VoIP: +1 604 670 0140

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-16 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:50:13PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. If all yo

Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On 16/02/2021 03:50, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most > contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline > styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. Not a definitive list, but ru

Serifed, variable-pitch font.

2021-02-15 Thread peter
What serifed, variable-pitch font is available to Firefox and most contemporary browsers? I want to specify a font-family in inline styling. Preferably to work in MacOS and MS Windows as well as Linux. Thx, ... P. -- cell: +1 236 464 1479Bcc: peter at easthope

bullseye: GNOME, Thunderbird, font styles?

2020-12-22 Thread Kristian Rink
Folks; unsure whether this belongs here (apologies if not): Using Thunderbird 78 and GNOME on Debian bullseye, I wonder whether there is any way to make Thunderbird comply with the font (size, style) settings of the rest of the desktop? Spent a fair amount of time trying to tweak this, but

Re: any tool that demonstrate font?

2020-11-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Ive always used xfontdisplay, but I dont think it's installed by default. And it's an old X app that feels a little clunky. On Tue, Nov 24, 2020, 2:32 AM Long Wind wrote: > i want to try some new Chinese font > of course i can remove installed font, then install new Chines

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 20/7/20 6:40 am, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? Or is everything else readable? Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Not

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 19 Jul, 2020 at 17:31:12 +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: > On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? > > > > > > > > > > > > Or is everything else readable? > > Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synap

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-19 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 16/7/20 9:15 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Perhaps adjust your display setting to smaller numbers? Or is everything else readable? Some is, some isn't.:) Firefox, Thunderbird, Leafpad, Notes, Synaptic, vcl are readable. ftpsed, alsamixergui, and some others are not. Liam's suggestion has mad

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 iul 20, 19:01:30, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > > > If you install libreoffice-gtk3 then LibreOffice will respect the font > > settings used by XFCE4. > > Thanks, Liam - that does help with LibreOffi

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:21:24 +0100 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > Hi, Folks - > > > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > > with font size too small for

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 at 19:01:30 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > >> Hi, Folks - > >> > >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > >> with font size too

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and alsamixer, e

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread hobie of RMN
> On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: >> Hi, Folks - >> >> I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up >> with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., >> notably Libre programs and

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-15 Thread Keith bainbridge
On 14/7/20 10:26 am, hobie of RMN wrote: Hi, Folks - I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on individual pro

Re: XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Jul, 2020 at 20:26:57 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > > I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up > with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., > notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I

XFCE4 - How to increase font size on applications?

2020-07-13 Thread hobie of RMN
Hi, Folks - I'm running Linux buster with xce4 desktop. Some applications come up with font size too small for me to be able to read menu texts, etc., notably Libre programs and alsamixer, etc. How can I ge3t larger fonts on individual programs?

Re: Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
nge of drivers the initial font on the screen on booting the > system was a large, ugly font, during the second portion of the boot process > the font changed to a smaller, better looking font. After the change the > r\font remained large and ugly until the login screen when the fon

Re: Fw: Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 06/13/2020 03:52 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: Use the setfont command to change your console font on the fly. Look in /usr/share/consolefonts for available choices and try them out. I use setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz systemd sets it while booting too. I

Fw: Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Matthew Campbell
Use the setfont command to change your console font on the fly. Look in /usr/share/consolefonts for available choices and try them out. I use setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Uni3-TerminusBold32x16.psf.gz systemd sets it while booting too. I haven't figured that part out yet. It's

Monitor Font During Boot

2020-06-13 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have a LG Flatron 24EN33TW-B LED LCD Monitor on my Debian Buster Linux platform. I have just changed the screen driver from nouveau to nvidia by running 'sudo apt install nvidia-driver. Before the change of drivers the initial font on the screen on booting the system was a large,

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

2020-06-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
If you're used to the common keystrokes for copy/cut/paste/undo of C-c/C-x/C-v/C-z, then you'll want to enable CUA mode. There are caveats that certain commands won't mirror the tutorial exactly but as far as I use Emacs, it is a benefit. I do disable CUA mode when I use Org mode as it uses the S

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

2020-06-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/05/2020 09:58 AM, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-05 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Typical *text editors* set distance between stops to one specific value. If I understand correctly. I

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

2020-06-05 Thread mick crane
On 2020-06-05 12:47, Richard Owlett wrote: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Typical *text editors* set distance between stops to one specific value. If I understand correctly. I had a look and you can set the tab distanc

THANK YOU!!!! -was- [Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small]

2020-06-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/05/2020 07:07 AM, John Hasler wrote: Richard Owlett writes: Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Emacs. Took me <30 seconds to set Help text font to legible size. Not sure why it took me that long *ROFL*

Re: LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

2020-06-05 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > Suggestions for a *text editor*, *NOT word processor*, which can set > tab stops at column N1, N2, N3, ... ? Emacs. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

LibreOffice Writer - Help system font too small

2020-06-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On a LUG mailing list I asked for a *text editor* which could set tabs at arbitrary column locations. I was referred to LibreOffice Writer. Clicking the Help button yields unreadably small text. How do I set the Help system's font size to something legible? Suggestions for a *text e

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:16:40 +0200 n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:45:58 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote: > > Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian > > package contains this font? > > My copy of the Courier font was instal

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread nito
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 15:24:29 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > > b) The texlive Courier fonts are the digitalised version released by > > IBM themselves under some free font license > > How did you obtain that information? AFAICS,

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread Nicolas George
n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > b) The texlive Courier fonts are the digitalised version released by > IBM themselves under some free font license How did you obtain that information? AFAICS, the Courier fonts in TeXlive are the Adobe and URW variants. signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread nito
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 14:21:10 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > > The ttf-mscorefonts package from contrib mentioned before, does *not* seem > > to > > contain the original Courier font, only Microsoft's variant 'Courier New'

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread Nicolas George
n...@dismail.de (12020-04-27): > The ttf-mscorefonts package from contrib mentioned before, does *not* seem to > contain the original Courier font, only Microsoft's variant 'Courier New'. The original Courier font was physical. All the files we have nowadays are variants /

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread nito
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:45:58 +0300, Tommi Höynälänmaa wrote: > Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian > package contains this font? My copy of the Courier font was installed by 'texlive-fonts-recommended'. If you want 'Courier 10pitch

Re: Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread Erwan David
Le 27/04/2020 à 11:45, Tommi Höynälänmaa a écrit : > Hello > > Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian > package contains this font? > > - Tommi Höynälänmaa > > > It it installed (downloaded from microsoft) by ttf-mscorefonts-inst

Missing Courier font

2020-04-27 Thread Tommi Höynälänmaa
Hello Courier fonts is missing in my system (in Gtk/Pango). What Debian package contains this font? - Tommi Höynälänmaa

(solved - part 2) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-04 Thread Beco
ut-of-repositories alternatives for Lucida Grande that I'm willing > to > > remove them all. > > Sorry, there is not. Lucida Grande is a variant of Lucida Sans that > Apple commissioned and holds the copyright on. > > It's very likely that one of those out-of-rep

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
e is not. Lucida Grande is a variant of Lucida Sans that Apple commissioned and holds the copyright on. It's very likely that one of those out-of-repo alternatives is causing your problem; left to its own devices, the X11 font system will look for a reasonable match when it doesn't have pr

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-04 Thread Beco
erneath the webpage. > > > > > > On the left of the debugging console you should see a tree of > > > HTML elements. When you mouse over them, they will be > > > highlighted and so will the relevant portion of the page. Some > > > parts of the tree migh

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
gt; HTML elements. When you mouse over them, they will be > > highlighted and so will the relevant portion of the page. Some > > parts of the tree might be folded down into triangles, which you > > can open up. > > > > Find the smallest element that contains the 9. Click

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-04 Thread Beco
he tree might be folded down into triangles, which you > can open up. > > Find the smallest element that contains the 9. Click on it in > the tree to select it. > > Now look over at the right side of the debugging console. > There's a Fonts tab. It will show you the pre

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-02 Thread Dan Ritter
ver at the right side of the debugging console. There's a Fonts tab. It will show you the precise font being used. That is your culprit. Tell us and we'll see if we can help you remove it. -dsr-

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2020-04-02 Thread Beco
ue on how to do that? My best, Bèco On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 19:04, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:39:24 -0400 > Larry Martell wrote: > > > > > > There are many font finder apps. I use the WhatFont Chrome extension. > > That page looks

Re: (solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-22 Thread Nicolas George
Beco (12019-10-22): > > > solved the mystery. > But as I'm just a user in this case, it is solved in my end. No it is not: as long as you do not know what caused it, you cannot pretend to have solved the *mystery*. At most, you may have solved the *problem*, but most likely it will be back in sim

Re: (solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-22 Thread Beco
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 06:37, Nicolas George wrote: > Beco (12019-10-21): > > Installing: > > > > # apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > > > solved the mystery. > > No, it hid it. > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas George > Hello Nicolas, Yes, you are right, from the point of view of who

Re: (solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-22 Thread Nicolas George
Beco (12019-10-21): > Installing: > > # apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > solved the mystery. No, it hid it. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

(solved) Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-21 Thread Beco
Dear Michael, You got it right: [...] > "Segoe UI", Verdana, "Lucida Grande", Arial, Helvetica,sans-serif; > > however in the section "für die Turnierdatenbank" (tournament database) > there is only > > FONT-FAMILY: "Luci

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-21 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:39:24 -0400 Larry Martell wrote: > > There are many font finder apps. I use the WhatFont Chrome extension. > That page looks to be entirely in Verdana. > that depends on which fonts you have installed, according to the style sheet the requested font

Re: Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-21 Thread Larry Martell
l see 201- > > I'm not sure how this come to be. I tried to look at the "html page source" > to detect what font it uses, but I saw no explanation there. > > Some time ago I remember removing A LOT of fonts I don't need from my > computer (mostly not-latin). So may

Missing a "9" (possible font missing)

2019-10-21 Thread Beco
Hi guys, When I open this website: https://chess-results.com/ Every "9" is written as a dash "-". If you look for any event year for the current year you (well, at least me) will see 201- I'm not sure how this come to be. I tried to look at the "html page sourc

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
itHub - oblitum/YouCompleteMe: A code-completion engine for Vim (fork > featuring > hints for C/C++ and an experimental Swift completer) > https://github.com/oblitum/YouCompleteMe > > Regards, > Jörg. > > > c...@riseup.net wrote on 21/09/2019 12:56: >> Hello,

Re: The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
ntal Swift completer) https://github.com/oblitum/YouCompleteMe Regards, Jörg. c...@riseup.net wrote on 21/09/2019 12:56: > Hello, > Does anyone know what kind of font and color themes used in this terminal and > editor setting, > https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1e2F0A123h

The font and themes used in terminal and editor

2019-09-21 Thread CSO
Hello, Does anyone know what kind of font and color themes used in this terminal and editor setting, https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1e2F0A123h331c1G0L0R/SadBart.gif, ? Thanks Mark

Re: Libreoffice menu font sizes

2019-07-10 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: ... > Do you have the libreoffice-gtk3 package installed?? > If not, installing it might solve the issue. that was exactly it! thank you so much. :) songbird

Re: Libreoffice menu font sizes

2019-07-10 Thread Siard
songbird wrote: > the font within the application is larger, but the menu fonts do not > change. not sure why either. i may have broken something somewhere > or the theme i'm using may not be working with that for some reason. > what theme are you using? I tried several themes

Re: Libreoffice menu font sizes

2019-07-10 Thread songbird
Siard wrote: > songbird: >> Siard: >> > [MATE] System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance > tab 'Fonts'. >> > Set the 'Application font' to the desired font and size. >> >> yes, i have that set and it does not change th

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