This seems to be the only condensed sans font that one can expect to find on every Linux system. Can one specify it in a web page css font-family, ideally without requiring any changes to the default configuration for fontconfig? Bob T.
On 2008/03/03 22:50 (GMT-0500) Bob Tennent apparently typed:> This seems to be the only condensed sans font that one can expect > to find on every Linux system. Can one specify it in a web page css > font-family, ideally without requiring any changes to the default > configuration for fontconfig?I just tried fc-match ''nimbus sans l condensed'' in Hardy, Etch, SUSE 10.2, FC8, SUSE 10.3, Knoppix 4.0.2, and Mandriva 2008.0. The only match I got was on Mandriva. Similar results on http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-nimbsansc.html .OTOH, I got multiple hits on DejaVu Sans Condensed http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-dejasansc.html . What systems did you test on that makes you think this font is installed "on every Linux system"? -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
Le Mar 4 mars 2008 16:49, Felix Miata a ?crit :> What systems did you > test on that makes you think this font is installed "on every Linux > system"?Many online font surveys pretend informing app and web developpers on the fonts which are likely to be found on Linux systems. They are usually based on the state of Linux font deployment that was true around Red Hat 7.x, and have not been updated since. Some of them are particularly tragic insamuch as they offer online polls to end-users, but only give historical fonts as choices so you can''t even propose modern fonts (for example http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml ; another one I don''t have the time to dig out today depends on a java applet that will typically not work on many Linux systems ; etc) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:> Some of them are particularly tragic insamuch as they offer online > polls to end-users, but only give historical fonts as choices so you > can''t even propose modern fontsAll the more reason to use generic names. I think matching on "sans condensed" or "sans-serif condensed" will give you the results you want. --Pat
On 04/03/2008, Bob Tennent <rdtennent at hotmail.com> wrote:> This seems to be the only condensed sans font that one can expect > to find on every Linux system. Can one specify it in a web page css > font-family, ideally without requiring any changes to the default > configuration for fontconfig?On Ubuntu, nothing needs to be changed in the fontconfig configuration. I''m guessing this is the general case (but maybe not). See $ fc-list "Nimbus Sans L" family style width Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Italic:width=100 Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold:width=100 Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular:width=100 Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed:width=75 Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Italic:width=100 Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed Italic:width=75 Nimbus Sans L:style=Regular Condensed:width=75 Nimbus Sans L:style=Bold Condensed Italic:width=75 Web designers can use the CSS font-stretch property although no browser I know of will apply it. It would be used as such: style="font-stretch: condensed", or style="font-stretch: narrower" with font-family: Nimbus Sans L. The lack of support for this CSS property has already been reported for Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3512 Have a good day, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye