F22 and missing font Courier New 10

[Joseph Loo]

On 10/29/2015 08:10 PM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 29 October 2015, Gregory P. Ennis sent:
>> I created a new install of F22 64 and to my surprise the 'courier New
>> 10' is missing from Libreoffice.  Does anyone have an rpm
>> replacement. 
>>  I have a bunch of documents that use this font and would like to
>> continue it.  There are some other fonts that are close, but none that
>> is an exact duplicate which means the formatting will need to be
>> different on the new or edited old documents. 
> 
> I thought the Liberation font set was supposed to have a replacement for
> Courier New?  (May not be identical looking, but allegedly having the
> same metrics so that document layout didn't change.)
> 
> I'm curious if you've tried that one, to see if it actually lives up to
> the claim.
> 
> And I think the system is supposed to pick it as an equivalent,
> automatically, if something tries to use Courier when you don't have
> Courier installed.
> 
> 
Have you tried nimbus mono L or freemono?

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Joseph Loo
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