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to: Phil Marlowe
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2004-09-14 13:18:36
subject: FONTS

Hello Phil.

13 Sep 04 10:06, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 PM>  ---------FONTS

 >> You obviously have never seen the sun12x22 fonts
 >> in a Linux console then. The best there is for
 >> the visually impaired methinks.

 PM>  === Sounds interesting but I'm not familiar with
 PM>  Linux. Is it available in all versions of Linux?
 PM>  And why is it "the best there is?" Compared to
 PM>  what? What else have you seen?

 PM>  === What Jasen's code was used for was to set up
 PM>  a simple =easy-to-use= reader. Note the emphasis.
 PM>  These people are not computer savvy. Aside from
 PM>  the obvious limitations and intentions, this is
 PM>  a sort of introduction to computers for them,
 PM>  which is why it has to be relatively painless.
 PM>  Jasen's code was used with a DOS text editor.
 PM>  From what I've heard Linux's is a -steep-
 PM>  learning curve.


Depends how heavliy windows indioctrinated you are ... :-)

Russell

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