fonting the universe

[der.hans]

Am 03. Dec, 2016 schwätzte Anon Anon so:

> Always use powerline fonts and Google fonts are absolutely Haram.

I should finally look at powerline. I'm not a fan of status lines taking
up space in my xterms ( konsole until I can get reasonable xterm fonting
on the steam machine ). Circumstantial status lines could be useful.

powerline fonts installed.

/me feels the powerline of Grayskull.

Hey, it's Saturday morning, cheesy cartoon references are appropriate :).

ciao,

der.hans

>
> On Dec 3, 2016 11:02, "Stephen Partington" <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Google fonts
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2016 10:13 AM, "der.hans" <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>>
>>> moin moin,
>>>
>>> I'm at my once a decade point of caring about fonts.
>>>
>>> It's awesome that distributions support so many languages, but Urdu,
>>> Klingon and Thai having legible fonts are not going to help me read them.
>>>
>>> fonts-gfs-complutum - ancient Greek font revival from the University of
>>> Alcalá, Spain
>>>
>>> That's cool and useful for a friend, but it's been a while since I've
>>> spoken any Greek aside from Opa[0].
>>>
>>> So, aside from grepping out 50 languages, how do I determine which debian
>>> packages I should install to get all the cool fonts that will enrich my
>>> digital culteral experience?
>>>
>>> I might be asking the same thing about CentOS and Fedora next week, so
>>> rpm-based answers also welcome.
>>>
>>> I am mostly concerned about xterm, konsole, GIMP and LibreOffice. In that
>>> order.
>>>
>>> [0] Leaving aside the many English words derived from ancient Greek, etc.
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>>
>>> der.hans
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