[bug #62921] want another monospaced font in the default set

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #62921 (project groff):

I concur that this (an nice monospaced font) would be desirable.

begin-off-topic: PTMono is a _very_ nice free monspaced font. extremely
readable on screen. use it as my standard font in the terminal. PTSerif and
PTsans are also very decent (and I use them with groff) end-off-topic

regarding 

> The main practical problem here is that while we could certainly generate
groff font descriptions file for some or all of those, and ship them, users
still won't get those fonts in the output they generate unless they have the
font files installed where the output driver programs, like grops and gropdf,
can find them. This is a matter of populating the "download" files that these
programs respectively read.

well, while ugly and wasting disk space it would not be out of the question to
include the font file (of the single, chosen monospaced font) as well... but a
very clear description along the line "if you want to use font X, download it
(or locate it's current location on your system) and put the following line in
grops/download etc." would probably be sufficient.

currently the barrier to using any font outside the canonical base set is
rather high for the average user I'd say. and the hurdle is not editing
'download' but generating the font description files. so if the latter where
provided for a selection of good, free fonts users might appreciate that.

just my 2c

joerg



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