I have temporarily put in this section every font-related
requirement I could think about. Probably what is here should
be spread in other subsystems, just let me know.
RULE must support non alphabetic languages, but the user
should be able to choose and install only the fonts he will
actually need. This may force us to mess with some existing
RPM, but there is no need to waste space on alphabets you
won't be able to read anyway, is it?
Ghostscript comes to mind here: in RH 7.2 it claims some 10/20
megs of far east fonts even if you have selected an european
language.
Even if the computer itself is obsolete, it may very well
happen that it has a state of the art printer attached, or a
high resolution monitor. There are lots of situations when a
larger monitor or a newer printer increase one's productivity
much more than doubling the RAM. Let's not forget it.
I don't know enough about this to make any meaningful
decision. Of course, it would be nice to have the nicest
possible fonts when video card and monitor allow it, but, is
it possible. All I can say for now is:
Fonts should look the same on paper and screen, if the
video HW allows it.
When that is not possible, at least the paper version of a
document should be as professional as possible.
Yes, it must support the EURO symbol without manual
setting
Do we really need one, on a stand alone machine? IIRC,
other distributions (slackware?) happily live without it...
If it is "only" a matter of modifying something in
XFree86config, let's do it, otherwise let's at least put down
why it is not possible.
Copyright 2000/2002 Marco Fioretti, linuxdesk at inwind dot it. All Rights Reserved.
Copyright 2002 The RULE project. All Rights Reserved.
Generated on 2002/06/10 5:21:30 UTC
