[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Bug#462352: doc-linux-text: The X Window User HOWTO contains misleading font comment

[Adam Rice]

Package: doc-linux-text
Version: 2007.02-1
Severity: minor


XWindow-User-HOWTO.gz contains the statement:

"
Terminal emulators like xterm require a monospaced font. So forget about
TrueType or Type 1 fonts.
"

This is wrong on two counts: firstly monospaced TrueType fonts exist, 
and secondly xterm supports them.

xterm -fa "Courier New"

works very nicely on my system, thankyou (I have the msttcorefonts 
package installed).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- no debconf information