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Greetings, Andy Koppe!

>> - It seems that Monospace font is not available with non-X11 applications.

> I'd suspect that 'Monospace' isn't an actual font, but some sort of
> alias for the default monospace font, and it looks like it's either
> 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' or 'DejaVu Sans Mono'. Both of these are
> available for Windows as well. I've got them on my system anyway, but
> I don't know whether they were there by default or whether they were
> installed with some application.

You can obtain DejaVu font from their site (it's open project), and Bitstream's
Vera is (was), basically, a base for it. (So, talking about "either" isn't
exactly correct)


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 06.08.2010, <16:24>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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