I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
On 06/16/07 23:26, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Klaus Schmidinger may or may not have written...
On 06/16/07 18:28, Anssi Hannula wrote:
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courier:bold
Probably monospace:bold instead of courier:bold.
I tried both, and courier:bold looks a lot better to me (much more like a "typewriter" font).
That shouldn't be a problem so long as you use monospace as a fall-back... actually, since that's an alias anyway, you should probably just locally define it as being courier :-)
When I select "courier:bold" it results in "/usr/share/fonts/URW/n022004l.pfb". If I remove the entire URW directory and select "courier:bold" again, I get "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/andalemo.ttf" - which is exactly the same as I get when I select "monospace:bold".
I get, respectively: /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/N/NimbusMonL-Bold.pfb /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/B/Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono-Bold.ttf
These are symlinks to /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/n022004l.pfb /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMoBd.ttf which are supplied by gsfonts and ttf-bitstream-vera.
So I see no problem with VDR using "courier:bold" as default.
I, OTOH, see no problem with it using "monospace:bold" as default; allowing it to be set as a compile-time option should be sufficient, though. Otherwise it's patch time :-)