font moan

I moved from Mozilla to Firefox and found that the font menu has changed. I don’t know where each app looks for its fonts; they’re not neatly integrated in Linux as in MacOS. I don’t like any of them as well as Lucida, but they are apparently TrueType and render nice and smooth, with the interesting side effect that it’s much easier to read light-on-dark. But none of them have a complete Greek alphabet! Most Greek letters show up looking like Syriac, whatever font I choose. Argh. How am I to do math?

Any month now I’m going back to Apple’s warmer embrace. All I really wanted from Linux was the ability to write Unix-style filters, anyway.