Re: [vile] Fonts-Lucida typewriter?

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:14:16 -0500
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:09:20AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > Since we're talking about fonts...
> > 
> > I have WinVile installed at home (Vista) and at my customer's site
> > (Windows 7 Pro) and when I try to set the font WinVile finds a whole
> > slew of them under Vista but only about 6 at the customer's site.  I
> > know that many more fonts are installed under W7 Pro.
> 
> I think the difference is due not to the operating system but whether
> Office (Microsoft Word) is installed.
> 
> I have a VM with Windows 7 Professional, and it's pretty minimal regarding
> fonts, while my older (desktop machine) Windows XP with Office 2003 has the
> wide-character fonts such as you might see for the checklist example here:
>       http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog-figures.html
> 
> On the other hand, in my newer Windows XP machine (a VM that I've setup
> a couple of months ago), I did make a point to install the international fonts
> - which I recall as hard to do "later".  That's a few dozen fonts (including
> NSimSun, MS Gothic, Simplified Arabic).  But it doesn't include the Arial
> and other nice variants found with Word.
> 

Well, Office is installed on both machines - 2010 on mine and 2003 at
the customer.  I know that I see many more fonts in Office on the
customer's machine than I do in WinVile.

Not really all that important, I was just curious why there's a
difference.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn