font.rst
author Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:21:47 +0200
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English Punctuation Guide.

-*- outline -*-

* How see installed font for X window.

  $ fontsel &
  $ gucharmap &

* Setup font for emacs.

If X running by xinit, write to ~/.xinitrc

  xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults &

and write to ~/.Xdefaults

  emacs.font: 7x13

* Setup font for mc.

Not any font display correctly cyrillic characters - only those which with ISO 10646.
If you in X run mc as

  $ xterm -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" -geometry 120x42 -e mc -x

* Fonts family.

See

  http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=FontsInCyberspace&_sc=1

** DejaVu.

The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Vera Fonts.

See

  http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

*** Debian.

  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu

** IPA.

See

  http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfont
  http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont
  http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium

*** Debian.

  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-sil-doulos
  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-sil-charis
  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium

* How configure font for X?

** Debian.

$ sudo aptitude install fontconfig-config
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

Font tuning method for screen:  Native
Enable subpixel rendering for screen: Always (или Automatic)
Enable bitmapped fonts by default?: No