Bug 17301

Summary: new port: x11-fonts/mozilla-fonts
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports (Nobody) <ports>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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Description Dom Mitchell 2000-03-10 13:20:01 UTC 
	This port is a collection of web fonts designed for use with
	netscape/mozilla.  It aims to get rid of those
	"OhMyGodHowSmallIsThatWebPage" problems that a lot of sites
	designed for use with IE have.

Fix: Here's the shar:
How-To-Repeat: 
	n/a
Comment 1 Will Andrews 2000-03-11 17:56:53 UTC 
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 01:09:55PM +0000, Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk wrote:
> 	This port is a collection of web fonts designed for use with
> 	netscape/mozilla.  It aims to get rid of those
> 	"OhMyGodHowSmallIsThatWebPage" problems that a lot of sites
> 	designed for use with IE have.

Cool! Thanks for taking the time to do this. :)

> sed 's/^X//' >mozilla-fonts/pkg/DESCR << 'END-of-mozilla-fonts/pkg/DESCR'
> Xmozilla-fonts is a complete set of the three kingpin typefaces in
> XHttpland-- Times, Helvetica, and Courier-- each in two weights,
> Xtwo slants, and seven sizes (for a grand total of 84). The sizes
> Xrange from 13- to 57-point (all @ 100dpi) and have been individually
> Xselected to match the font display behavior of MS-Windows Netscape
> Xas closely as possible.  Right down to the glaring scale disparity
> Xbetween sizes 6 and 7.
> X
> XOnce installed, you'll have to add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla to
> Xyour X font path by either:
> X
> X$ xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mozilla
> X$ xset fp rehash
> X
> Xor by adding it to your X server configuration file (usually
> X/etc/XF86Config) and restarting the X server.
> X
> XYou'll also need to configure netscape to use them.  See
> X/usr/X11R6/share/doc/mozilla-fonts/README.
> X
> XWWW: http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts

Not everyone's going to look at DESCR. I advise having the Makefile ${CAT}
${PKGDIR}/DESCR.

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Comment 2 Dom Mitchell 2000-03-12 17:00:55 UTC 
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:56:53PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> Not everyone's going to look at DESCR. I advise having the Makefile ${CAT}
> ${PKGDIR}/DESCR.

You're right.  Whoever commits this, please add in this line to the
Makefile:

post-install:
	${CAT} ${PKGDIR}/DESCR

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Comment 3 Steve Price freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-05-01 03:35:21 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

New port committed, thanks!