Re: Defoma

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 09/15/04

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    Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:40:11 +0100
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    On (15/09/04 01:35), John Lowell wrote:
    > Anssi Porttikivi wrote:
    >
    > >
    > >Neither can anyone else. It's a mess.
    > >
    > Hi Anssi,
    >
    > First, my apologies to you and the list for the blank message that I
    > sent inadvertently just moments ago. Life's hard enough without things
    > like that, eh? :-)
    >
    > So it's a mess? That's certainly not encouraging. Frankly, I'm a little
    > surprized. I'm new to Debian but know that there are a lot of very
    > capable people here. I'd have thought that helpful documentation for
    > something so closely identified with Debian as it's own font manager
    > would be available somewhere. I come away from the various man pages
    > utterly confused. Where to start, should it be the programs first, the
    > fonts? I'm afraid to tinker for fear I'll hose the fonts that are
    > already there and functioning. There's got to be an order to these
    > things. I'd volunteer to write a How-To if only I knew How-To. :-)
    >
    > Amusingly, I wrote a few weeks ago about fonts and the one kind soul
    > that replied referred me in one phrase to Defoma. Maybe it's God
    > punishing me. :-)
    Rob Weir wrote a useful guide:
    http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt

    HTH

    Regards

    Clive 

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