Re: Not matching our bitmap Helvetica

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 08/09, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 07:35:51AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Stupid other question: what would it take to ship a good and ttf enabled
> > setup in base (plus some of the fonts)? We already rely on some of this
> > in the wscons font generating tool (where we only commit the resulting
> > pre-scaled fonts) - having this completely in base could have some merit
> > if it is not too heavy or too churny.
> 
> We do ship some TTF fonts (/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/*), so we can
> just add them as we wish.

I also don't know much about this stuff.  Can you explain why it
wouldn't work to provide either a better Helvetica bitmap font or a
Helvetica vector font (e.g., TrueType) and make the vector font get
chosen instead of the bitmap font when both exist?

Regards,

Lewis