From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 06:55:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E08106564A for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 06:55:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9E18FC15 for ; Sun, 30 May 2010 06:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o4U6tMcb027601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 30 May 2010 07:55:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4C020BDA.9070508@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 07:55:22 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20100529211104.GA55411@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100529211104.GA55411@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.1 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_ALL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: fonts qstns. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 06:55:29 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/2010 22:11:07, Gary Kline wrote: > guys, > > given the depth and wide scope of knoweldge on this list, i'm > hoping that somebody can clue me in on font stuff... BUT: > the fonts i'm interested in have to work with openoffice. Any truetype or postscript font should work with OOo. I believe OOo will pick up whatever is available system-wide nowadays. If not, there will be an admin app you can use to add your font to the repertoire it knows about. Last time I used it, it vaguely recall it was called "sadmin," but that was a long time ago now. Note that this controls what OOo wll display to you on-screen. You make not get exactly the same font on a printout, depending on the make and model of your printer. > first, i'm looking for a font that is apropos for long > manscripts. printed. books rather than newspapers or other > ink+paper material. to me, GEorgia works quite nicely for > my book "JOURNEY." but am wondering if there is such a thing as > a semi-bold [or darker than usual regular] typeface. I'm quite partial to Gentium as a well proportioned, easy to read serif font. It's not very dark on the page though -- from a distance a sheet of Gentium text appears noticably lighter than many other fonts. > i hope you're all sitting down now; i'm ready to pay for this > font. --hope nodybody fell over :) You might want to take a look at http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font - -- I've already mentioned their Gentium font, but Charis SIL and Doulos SIL looks promising too[*]. There isn't a port for either of those last two but you can look at the type-sample PDFs. Whipping a port together shouldn't be too much trouble. Cheers, Matthew [*] These are the people to go to if you are desperate for a font based on Sudanese camel branding marks... - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwCC9oACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyjGQCeLnhZWAG0GA9SA0FCPcYqGTne nx0AoIG2Pi8O4JycOog3AcbBzSwaYit5 =aj+c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----