Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces

[David Hansen]

On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:56:34 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Yes, I see that here too.  The problem appears to be that "courier" and
> "helvetica" are proprietary/trademarked fonts and/or font names (I
> don't know exactly, just guessing), so most GNU/Linux distributions
> don't come with them.
> Instead, they have things like "arial" and "courier new".

These are the M$ fonts (M$ once released them under a free beer license.
A lot of GNU/Linux distributions ship these old versions).

David