Re: [vile] Fonts-Lucida typewriter?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:25:26AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 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.

then I can only guess - my hunch is that it's due to installing some
add-ons either for Word or for localization.

vile's only looking for monospace fonts - doesn't care how they got on
the system.  I don't know how to review the font-list to see which
program (or package) installed them.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
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