[OT] Re: WIndows version compared with Linux

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Alexander wrote:

> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:59:38 +0200
> From: Alexander <RittervomNie web de>
> Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
>     <dia-list gnome org>
> To: chris green isbd co uk,
>      discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: WIndows version compared with Linux
>
> Chris Green schrieb:
> > I didn't think dia used the X fonts but maybe it does.
>
> Did you find any font files in dia installation :-)?
>
> > I'm not sure how to install new fonts on Slackware, that's my basic
> > problem.  "man -k font" doesn't produce anything useful that I can
> > see.
>
> man pages are command line related, only a few pages refer to graphical
> things. Try

Debian insists on a man page for every application (almosts as good as
using BSD), unfortunately these tend to be maintained by Debian rather
than pushed back upstream and included with all distributions.

- Alan