Re: TECH: Unicode ranges in various fonts (was Re: ML4)

Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, John Cowan wrote:
>
>
>>To whomever asked about controlling the search order Mozilla browsers
>>use: There's probably a way to set a preference in user.js, but I
>>haven't been able to find out what it is.  I wish I could, because
>>I get annoyed by fullwidth Cyrillic all the time (from Japanese font).
> I thought I'd made a post about this before, but perhaps I didn't. If
> you're using a Linux build that uses Xft (or whatever it is that makes the
> fonts look nice), I think by editing your /etc/fonts/local.conf file (or
> your user copy), you can change the order. I'm not quite sure what the
> changes necessary are, but you could try studying
> /etc/fonts/fonts.{conf,dtd}.
Great - that might help. If mozilla doesn't let you choose the order, it might
just search the fonts in the order that the server spits 'em out. So it might
indeed help to play with the server config. Didn't occur to me. Thanks!

 > There has to be some other,
> platform-independent way, but that worked for me when disabling Times (New
> Roman) and Helvetica/Arial (which for some reason look a _lot_ worse on a
> laptop running X than a desktop running Windows).
Hmm... have you got the laptop display set to its preferred resolution (usually
the largest that it can do)? Since laptop screens are LCD the pixels are real
physical *thingies*, unlike in a cathode ray tube. Setting an LCD to a resolution
that's not its natural one works, due to some cleverness, but doesn't look as good.
And when I try it, the most obvious thing that's wrong is that fonts look worse.

> Tristan
> Hi, I'm a .sig virus! Copy me to your .sig file and help me propagate!
Out, out, foul spot!


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        Stephen Mulraney                ataltane@ataltane.net
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