On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 08:59:17PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
Chapter 2 :P
Now regarding a possible replacement of the ttf-ms-fonts package from extra. As i have said before i am no expert on the topic. I have seen people on the web claiming that there is no real substitute for this package. I have also read that webpage font rendering is better and faster with the use of those fonts cause most pages are created using some of these fonts. My experiments during the last days rather prove the above points, even though i didnt get into the core of this messing with font configuration files.
There are many popular font packages in AUR, some even in Community [7-9] as well as many others too available across the web.eg. [10] Maybe a combination of some of those packages will suffice for the replacement? Is an effort to achieve this worth it?
I would love hearing what others more relevant with this users have to say about this.
I dislike anti-aliasing, but all ttf fonts are ugly without it, except ms fonts. That's the only reason I had for installing them. But well, there is also bitmap fonts, and that's actually mainly what I'm using right now. I often heard the web reason also, but I'm not totally convinced by it. A lot of web pages look alright with different fonts. Anyway, even if I find that these fonts look great, I have nothing against moving them to unsupported, if that could remove potential legal issues.