Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (18 mails)

[Karoly Banicz <Karoly.Banicz@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Mike Fabian wrote:

> I am not absolutely sure which fonts you are using now, but I guess
> you have xtt-fonts.rpm rpm installed and the "Gothic" font which
> you select in OpenOffice is wadalab-gothic.ttf from the xtt-fonts.rpm.

That's right. 

> I recommend to install the free Japanese Kochi TrueType fonts:
> 
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-noarch/ttf-kochi-gothic-0.2.20020727-3.rpm
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.0-noarch/ttf-kochi-mincho-0.2.20020727-3.rpm
> 
> The Kochi fonts look more beautiful than the xtt-fonts and are less
> buggy. They also have a Unicode charmap, whereas the xtt-fonts only
> have a SJIS charmap.

Well, I have tried them, but I can see no difference whatsoever. They
appear the same and print the same, so I'm actually not quite sure that,
when I select Gothic or Mincho from the pull-down font menu, OO takes the
new kochi fonts and not the old watanabe/wadalab ones. Also, the latin
characters still behave the same way: not displayed (only blank space) but
printed correctly. There's only one visible change: the application fonts
(those in the menues and the status bar) have become lousy. It seems OO
now uses the kochi-mincho fonts for the application and I cannot make it
pick another one by the standard X command line option -fn. How can it be
set?  Also, how can I ensure that by Gothic/Mincho OO means the new kochi
fonts?

Cheers,
Karoly