Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: re fonts

Many thanks to everybody who replied to my plea for help. I'm now sorted 
and up and running. May I say at this point that I'm a Linux 'user'. Not 
a genius at IT alas but an ardent fan of the system which I use to write 
novels six hours a day. I have a feeling that the 'users' outnumber the 
'developers, sysops and webmasters' many fold and we guys making good 
use of the system would be lost without the brains that drives it. So 
many thanks to you all.

Incidentally, this is hardly the place to raise this but it may be of 
interest - the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) recognised 50 
years ago that there were 'users' and true engineers. They divided the 
engineering division into two halves. Operators who were more skilled at 
using the equipment, ie. Sound desks and cameras etc and true Engineers 
who knew not only how it worked but why it worked and how to fix it when 
it ground to a halt!

I fear that until Linux in general grasps the difference and appreciates 
it fully it will always have difficulty competing, since a certain 
Mister Gates spotted it and did something about it too long ago for comfort.

My thanks to all,

Garth.


On 25/01/11 15:19, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-01-25 10:09, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> >
> > I think the package used to be called something like
> >
> > msftcorefonts
> >
> > or something like that but i just checked in Ubuntu 10.04 and found
> >
> > ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> >
> > contains "Comic Sans" and the rest.  At the bottom of the package 
> > description
> > was this note.
> >
> > "NOTE: the package ttf-liberation contains free variants of the 
> > Times, Arial and
> > Courier fonts. It's better to use those instead unless you 
> > specifically need one
> > of the other fonts from this package."
> >
> > I think it is the usual story of just using your package manager to 
> > sort out
> > installing the fonts and then they should be available in all 
> > relevant programs.
> > Good luck and regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> There is a file for Mandrake10 that used to install these on Pbone site:
>
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15071888/dir/mandrake_10.x/com/msttcorefonts-bootstrap-0.1-4brs.noarch.rpm.html 
>
>
> I usually find that the Libreration fonts work just as well.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc


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