praat for Debian
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The choice of fonts for both the Praat picture and Help windows is way
too restrictive and is limited to Times/Helvetica/Palatino.  This is
the reason why the praat package recommends some of the xfonts-*
packages.

In some case, the X-Window server may choose a font that displays
poorly on the screen.  This may happen, for instance, when the
gsfonts-x11 is installed and its font directory appears before that of
xfonts-75dpi or xfonts-100dpi in the fonts path.  Indeed, the
gsfonts-x11 package defines aliases for the PostScript fonts in its
fonts.alias file.

In order to fix the problem, either remove the gsfonts-x11 package or
make the appropriate fonts to take precedence over those of
gsfonts-x11.  In a system-wide way, this can be done by editing the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file such that it reads something like:

    Section "Files"
        [...]
        FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        [...]
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        [...]
    EndSection

Users might also insure that the directories in the font path are in
the correct order by executing the following series of commands:

    xset -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
    xset -fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi
    xset +fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
    xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi


 -- Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>, Sat,  8 Dec 2007 16:31:11 +0100