About Vera fonts (was: Fedora Core 2 wishlists)

[Dan Williams]

In OOo 1.1.0-6 and higher at least, OOo uses the Luxi fonts where
possible, and Nimbus Roman No 9 L for Serif.  The Bitstream Vera fonts
do not have the required coverage for at least Eastern European locales,
so we can't use them as the default UI font, even though they look good
there.

Dan

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:41, Gerard Milmeister wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:34, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > > I don't know if it's hardware related or something else but, on my
> > > > laptop, Vera fonts with subpixel smoothing on are *way* nicer than
> > > > Luxi/Nimbus fonts with or without subpixel smoothing.
> > > 
> > > Well, that's certainly the first time I see anyone writing that
> > > Luxi/Nimbus is better than Vera. Must have had some trauma in his past;)
> > 
> > If we are more than 2 people thinking that Vera is really better than
> > Nimbus/Luxi, is there a hope to see Fedora use them by default then
> > (provided that there is a good solution to the coverage issue and to the
> > fact that the serif oblique font doesn't work in OpenOffice) ?
> I must concur that Luxi is better than Vera, at least the Sans Serif
> typeface. The Vera Serif looks OK, especially at sizes >= 14.
> BTW what font does OpenOffice in FC1 use for its menus? It doesn't look
> good. I tried to change the font to Luxi Sans using a replacement for
> 'Andale Sans UI', but this doesn't seem to work anymore. I also tried to
> replace 'Bitstream Vera' but to no avail.
> 
> Regards