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CamiloMM

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Registered: 2012-06-18

Posts: 21

SliTaz should have more font packages

I believe SliTaz should have more in the way of font packages, maybe even a "[c]fonts[/c]" category (instead of [c]x-window[/c]).

Why? Because fonts are (depending on character set coverage) small and a quick way to make things look nice. It's like icon packages in that sense but smaller, and hey we're looking at text most of the time.

Also, fonts do not have exploits - it's ok to have a bunch of out-dated fonts. That said, making font packages is pretty easy, you can just edit a [c]receipt[/c] template, put files in the [c]fs/[/c] and [c]tazpkg pack[/c] (that's how I make my personal packages).

So in the way of contributing to this, here is a font-family that is kind of massive and IMHO the most prominent of the open-fonts world, the Ubuntu font. It looks awesome too.

.tazpkg: http://jumbofiles.com/xrgoknd5ueyi

More about it here: http://font.ubuntu.com/

P.S.: This is a particularly big font family, with several weights, and even has a monospaced variant in it, and covers many character sets like Greek and Cyrillic. It could be broken down into [c]ubuntu-font[/c], [c]ubuntu-font-extra[/c] (light/medium weights besides the basic regular/bold) and [c]ubuntu-font-mono[/c], I just didn't bother. And, all that combined is just 1.3 MB

Ernst

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Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 35

Re: SliTaz should have more font packages

Hello Camillo - you are right - I was a little bit frustrated after installing Abiword and Inkscape e.g. to found that the variety of fonts is very small. So I would be interested in your package (I'm a newbie and have not made packages myself - upto now...). But the link seems to be broken.

Nevertheless I searched a little bit on my computer this evening and found the fonts directory in SliTaz. And remembered that there is a directory fonds in Windows (I have a dualboot system). So I simply copied the ttf files from the one font directory to the other - and WOW now I have more fonts than I ever can use... The more I work with SliTaz and the tricks possible the more I love it...

Regards Ernst

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: SliTaz should have more font packages

I use a similar method to generate my own packages and what you say is true. We need a few more fonts in SliTaz. I have all the fonts in SliTaz, including pankso's droid font and one not in SliTaz. The ubuntu ones would also be awesome

Darjeeling

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Registered: 2012-02-06

Posts: 210

Re: SliTaz should have more font packages

Since I use my own customized SliTaz Live CD I didn't even bother creating a package. I have simply copied the fonts I needed to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and made a new CD with tazlito. I know this isn't good style ... But I think what Camillo suggests is a good idea. There really should be a few font packages in the SliTaz repository. This here is pretty standard stuff and as far as I know it's all free ...

Bitstream Vera

http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/

DejaVu Fonts

http://dejavu-fonts.org/

Liberation Fonts

https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

MS Core Fonts (archive.org)

http://web.archive.org/web/20020124085641/http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm

Ubuntu Fonts

http://font.ubuntu.com/

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: SliTaz should have more font packages

For the ones in SliTaz by package name:

Bitstream Vera: ttf-bitstream-vera

Deja Vu: ttf-dejavu (comes with SliTaz's iso) and ttf-dejavu-extra

MS Core Fonts: get-msttcorefonts-1.00

Droid Fonts: droid-font

SDL Fonts: libsdl-ttf

lexeii

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: SliTaz should have more font packages

… And now Ubuntu Font Family in the repo too. Waiting for cooking & moving to the Mirror.