[PD] ttf-vera

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Jan 24 06:33:20 CET 2008


On Jan 23, 2008, at 12:55 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> That font is one of the default GNOME fonts and part of the GNOME   
>> suite, why would they remove it?  Do you have a link/reference  
>> about  that?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461282

"This font is going to be removed from the archive in favour for ttf- 
dejavu."

So the dependency can just be switched to DejaVu, it's the same font,  
same license, with just more language support.

>> It seems there should be a global font path in Pd, so that this  
>> stuff  can be set in one place and shared.
>
> Gem is searching all the pd-paths.
> e.g. ./extra would be a good place where it would find a default  
> font...

Works for me.

.hc

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