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gnome-font-viewer (part of GNOME of course) can do this (this is the default association for fonts under GNOME); indeed, it comes with a button to install the font, which obviously wouldn't make sense if the font needed to be installed already.
fontmatrix lets you organize groups of fonts to be installed or uninstalled, and you can preview them and see ...
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The font is Donald Knuth's Computer Modern. The documentation was no doubt created with LaTeX (or maybe even plain TeX). (Actually, these are both confirmed by the PDF metadata.)
(Edit: Poking around a bit more, it looks like, strictly speaking the documentation is created in a base format, which, thanks to GNU texinfo is exported to a variety of formats, ...
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There are two mechanisms for fonts in X land: server-side and client-side.
The traditional way to render fonts is for the client to tell the server “render foo at position (x,y) in font F” (where a font specification includes a face, size, encoding and other attributes). Either the X server itself, or a specialized program called a font server, opens the ...
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From the man page:
CHANGING FONTS
Changing fonts (or font sizes, respectively) via the keypad is not
yet supported in rxvt-unicode. Bug me
if you
need this.
You can, however, switch fonts at runtime using escape sequences,
e.g.:
printf '\e]710;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic"
You can use keyboard shortcuts, ...
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This is slightly modified from the instructions found here (and I haven't even checked if they work):
Install the chkfontpath package from ATrpms (Click on either the i686 or x86_64 package, depending on whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit machine).
As root, install some packages you'll need for the following steps:
yum install rpm-build cabextract ...
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In short: you cannot with the current version of Emacs (checked with 23.2),
but see below for a possible workaround.
Longer story: support for italics is encoded in the
terminfo database
as the sitm (enter italics) and ritm (exit italics) capabilities
(also called ZH and ZR for termcap compatibility); you can check
that your terminal supports them via:
...
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With the modern font libraries, this is easy. The best way is to simply get the .ttf files you want and drop them into ~/.fonts in your home directory. (If that doesn't exist, create it.)
Then, they should be available to your applications. This is per-user rather than system-wide (which you get with the msttcorefonts package), but has some advantages — you ...
5
The hands-down most comprehensive coverage would be Roman Czyborra’s GNU Unicode font project. It is intended to collect a complete and free 8×16/16×16 pixel Unicode font. It currently covers over 34,000 characters (out of ~40,000+ defined characters).
Most distributions have Gnu Unifont in their repositories.
There is a comprehensive list of unicode ...
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If you are referring to Ubuntu Font Family, then yes it is available to other distributions (for example, there is an Arch package in the AUR), but it would be equally straightforward to download it and install it manually if a package wasn't available for your distro.
The font is here: http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-0.71.2.zip
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According to http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/10100/fontsupport.htm the following several fonts support U+10100: Code2001, EversonMono (and EversonMono Oblique), MPH 2B Damase, and Penuturesu. Note that Code2001 isn’t where it used to be, but it can be downloaded from my Code2001 page. And you can add ALPHA-Demo and Quivira to the list.
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As Gilles said, to use a TrueType font like Consolas in Emacs 23 you must link it with the Freetype and Fontconfig libraries. In Gentoo, you do that by turning on the xft use flag when building Emacs. You'll need to turn that flag on (either globally or just for app-editors/emacs) and reinstall Emacs.
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For some reason, web browser like to make the monospace font smaller than other text, which can make code harder to read. There are two ways to handle this in Chrome.
Option 1: Customize Font Settings
Click the wrench icon.
Select "Preferences"
Select "Under the Hood"
Under "Web Content" you can "Customize Fonts..." -- you'll want to change the ...
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Emacs has the ability to show fonts with different faces, colors, and sizes in the same buffer. For instance, the following is produced by the AUCTeX major-mode, a useful mode for those who use LaTeX to create documents:
The two search terms that will be helpful are "font-locking" and "major mode". Essentially, to accomplish this in Emacs you would have ...
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Font Manager is very handy for previewing and comparing fonts. It doesn't let you open a TTF file, but in Linux "installing" a font is not a big deal, just copy it temporarily to ~/.fonts.
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updated answer
Since you're using Fedora, the variable that you need to play with is SYSFONT in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n. Play with the font-sizes ( 8, 12, 16, 32, etc ).
The avialable fonts are listed in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/.
You should be able to test the fonts by using setfont from your TTY:
$ setfont /lib/kbd/consolefonts/iso07u-16.psfu.gz
...
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There is a (reasonably old) thread on the suckless mailing list about this issue, that includes a patch: called pango.
There is slightly more recent version in the AUR for 5.8.2:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33193
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It's standard to print the Unicode replacement character in place of a character which does not exist in the current font.
A possible fix is simply to change the default font of either your OS (if the browser inherits the OS settings) or the browser. For example, my Firefox 11.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 is using the "serif" font (which might be a synonym for ...
4
Before you do anything else, upgrade your Debian distribution to at least Squeeze. Squeeze has been the active stable tree for a long time now (and will likely be superseded by Wheezy sometime this year) and Lenny is more than a year past its end-of-life date.
What that means is that not only is all of its software dangerously outdated, it hasn't been ...
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I had problems with Tshepang's method, but this worked for me (source):
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://fedora.missingbox.co.nz/core-fonts.rpm
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck core-fonts.rpm
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It depends on your distribution.
Arch Linux
In Arch Linux, once you have selected the font from /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ that you would like to set, you need to add it to your /etc/rc.conf like so:
CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16"
and then add the consolefont hook to your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems consolefont"
...
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rxvt does not support TrueType, but there is a fork rxvt-unicode (or urxvt) which can.
urxvt(1) gives two examples:
urxvt -fn "xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=15"
urxvt -fn "9x15bold,xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"
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Blender's answer pointed me in the right direction. I didn't actually modify those files, but what I did instead was created a file ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/iddbnhwr.default/chrome/userChrome.css and I put my changes in there. I made mine look like this:
#threadTree {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Calibri !important;
font-size: 10px !important;
}
...
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Thunderbird is written is XUL. It's Mozilla's markup language, and it's powered by XULRunner. Basically, it's GUI-oriented XML.
The thing that styles the whole application is actually just a simple .css file. If you find it, you can then find the elements you are looking for and just tweak the CSS. I'll post back the required path to the file and the rules ...
3
You can find out which package ships a given binary under Fedora like this:
yum provides /usr/bin/xfontsel
however this only works if you know the name and directory of the executable. Indeed for xfontsel it is xorg-x11-utils as already stated by Michael:
$ yum provides /usr/bin/xfontsel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Loading ...
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Console fonts and X fonts are two separate things in linux. Use the command setfont to change your font, and showconsolefont to see what it looks like. Each distro has it's own way of setting the default console font. Read the setfont man page for the location of the console fonts. For my Fedora 14 system, it's /lib/kbd/consolefonts/. Console fonts are ...
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Here are some of my suggestions:
Have you enabled the unicode useflag? Without it zsh won't be compiled with Unicode support. If you're using bash, it should have Unicode support through libreadline. Also, ksh and tcsh don't support Unicode at all.
It could also be your locale or font selections, but they look fine from what I can gather. Just make sure ...
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It would depend upon the font formats that FreeBSD accepts in usr/share/syscons/fonts.
You can use FontForge to convert a TTF font into other formats. According to this blog post, FreeBSD accepts the Slackware .fnt.gz format (the .gz just indicates it is zipped).
The Linux console uses .psf.gz fonts. You might try one of those to see if it works, if so you ...
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Regarding emacs not able to utilise italics in terminal emulators which provide this funtionality: This is bug #9652 in the emacs bug database which was fixed by Chong Yidong a week ago.
The fix is not in any released version of emacs though, but for instance in the emacs-snapshot package from emacs.naquadah.org.
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Ah yes, Ubuntu uses absolutely beautiful fonts. The first thing I always do after a new Fedora load is setup Ubuntu fonts!
Here's the howto:
http://blog.andreas-haerter.com/2011/07/18/tune-improve-fedora-fonts-typeface-ubuntu-like-sharp-fonts
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