Default fonts in Firefox

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Ian Jackson">

> What is this DejaVu Serif ?  It doesn't appear in the list of
> available fonts in the Firefox font selection dialogue.

DejaVu is a derivative of the Bitstream Vera family (for reasons described
well in the previous mail).

> > The DejaVu fonts are derived from the Bitstream Vera fonts, but add more
> > glyphs, particularily for eastern european languages, but should be
> > exchangeable with the Bitstream Vera fonts.
> 
> This seems unrelated to serif-vs-sans or antialiasing.

Perhaps, but it would be good to put DejaVu ahead of Bitstream Vera in the
fontconfig aliases list, so if a user installs DejaVu, they get it for the
Sans / Serif / Monospace aliases.

Thanks,

- Jeff

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