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Subject: Re: Missing 'Luxi Sans' font
From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:59:15 -0500
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On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 22:54 +0100, David Stacey wrote:
> In the recent font reorganisation, the package 'font-bh-ttf' was made 
> obsolete, replaced by 'xorg-x11-fonts-Type1'. Now, 
> 'xorg-x11-fonts-Type1' doesn't provide 'Luxi Sans' - in fact, this font 
> is no longer provided in Cygwin. Is this intentional? I'm guessing this 
> might be because 'Luxi Sans' has a non-free licence - see [1].

Correct.

> If the user has the 'dejavu-fonts' package installed then 'fc-match 
> "Luxi Sans"' will find 'DejaVu Sans', so at least mscgen will pick a 
> sensible font by default. I'll rebuild mscgen to use 'DejaVu Sans' as 
> the default font - hopefully I'll get round to this at the weekend.

That should be fine.

--
Yaakov




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