Sub-Pixel Font Positioning on UNIX mini-HOWTO
    http://jmason.org/howto/subpixel.html

TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems, Paul D. Smith
    paul@paulandlesley.org
    http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html#PACKAGED-FONTS


  407  apt-get install fttools
  408  apt-get install gsfonts-x11
  409  apt-get install sharefont
  410  apt-get install type1inst
  411  apt-get install x-ttcidfont-conf
  412  apt-get install xfonts-scalable
  413  apt-get install xfs
  462  apt-get install msttcorefonts
  484  apt-get install ttmkfdir


  cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
  ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
  mkfontdir -e /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings


  xterm -fa "Andale Mono" -fs 12
  xterm -fa "Courier New" -fs 12
  xterm -fa VeraMono -fs 9 -sb -sl 1000

  "less /etc/fonts/fonts.conf" and search for "Monospace faces" to find
  suitable monospace faces...


  restart firefox --> edit --> preferences --> general --> fonts/colours 
  ^^^^^^^

                  --> monospace list --- LOTS more including "Andale Mono"
                                              and "Courier New"

"Old-fashioned" bitmap fonts are missing from gnome-terminal, etc. This is how to get them back: 

 -- gnome-terminal rely on fontconfig to get their fonts (contrast older
    X11 apps which don't);

 -- utils: fc-cache, fc-list

 -- config:  /etc/fonts/fonts.conf     # ...master --- don't edit
                        local.conf     # ...overrides some stuff in fonts.conf
                       /conf.d/*       # ...examples

 == as root : ==

 -- using the examples conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf and conf.d/sub-pixel.conf,
    construct a local.conf allowing bitmaps, allowing sub-pixel and accepting
    "fixed" fonts:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <selectfont>
  <acceptfont>
   <pattern>
    <patelt name="family"><string>Fixed</string></patelt>
    <patelt name="family"><string>fixed</string></patelt>
    <patelt name="family"><string>MiscFixed</string></patelt>
   </pattern>
  </acceptfont>
 </selectfont>
<!-- conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf -->
<!-- Accept bitmap fonts -->
 <selectfont>
  <acceptfont>
   <pattern>
     <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
   </pattern>
  </acceptfont>
 </selectfont>
<!-- conf.d/sub-pixel.conf -->
<!--  Enable sub-pixel rendering --> 
  <match target="font">
    <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>


 -- regenerate the cache 
    
        fc-cache -fv

 -- check:

        fc-list ":spacing=mono:scalable=false" family pixelsize

    should now sow LucidaTypewriter and Courier

        fc-list ":" family pixelsize | grep Fixed

    should how our old friends, such as 

        Fixed:pixelsize=10
        Fixed:pixelsize=12
        Fixed:pixelsize=13

 -- shutdown all gnome-terminals and start a new one (or login as a different
    user and start one)

     -- you should now be able to choose the pixmap fonts 

     -- IF YOU DON'T DO THIS LAST STEP YOU WILL NOT SEE THE "NEW" FONTS

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