Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:39:05 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org, firefox, and bitstream-vera Message-ID: <20040819113905.GA79498@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <1092865107.899.146.camel@leguin> References: <20040818095933.GA67190@ip.net.ua> <1092858808.899.22.camel@leguin> <20040818202259.GG16055@ip.net.ua> <1092865107.899.146.camel@leguin>
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--r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:38:27PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: [...] > I went ahead and took screenshots. > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/vera.png > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/novera.png > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/none.png >=20 > The three in order are my normal desktop with bistream-vera, webfonts, > and the standard X set, mozilla with vera taken out, and mozilla with > the webfonts removed too. There's definitely a size difference, but not > "insanely large," which made me think of a bug I've seen in the font > handling in mozilla, that I've never tracked down. Of the three, I far > prefer FreeBSD.org's look when using vera. But this is just personal > taste. If you want to have programs prefer other fonts, you can edit > /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/local.conf to prefer another font set. See > fonts.conf for examples, but you're not supposed to modify that one. >=20 OK, I went ahead too, and installed bitstream-vera on my 4.x machine. I then configured Firefox to use bitstream-vera for Cyrillic encoding. Now English and Russian versions of the site look approximately in the same font size; there's still a difference in the size, but not as much as before. Yeah, and thanks for useful pointers! Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJJFZqRfpzJluFF4RAhxCAJ9E7sN0ttjpRQwxpifNMck1gzVCwACfRECx zbc439nHYPrAgZe74MRPG6s= =Y0Tx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3--
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