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Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis: > * doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Document how to add TrueType fonts > installed in a Guix profile to the X server font path. [...] > @@ -1192,6 +1193,24 @@ to display fonts, you have to install fonts with Guix as well. > Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and > @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}. > > +However, some programs do not support Fontconfig and rely on the X > +server to recognize a font. What about: “Older programs such as @command{xterm} do not use Fontconfig and instead rely on server-side font rendering.”? > Such programs require to specify a full > +name of a font using XLFD (X Logical Font Description), like this: > + > +@example > +-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-1 > +@end example > + > +To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in > +your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server: > + > +@example > +xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype > +@end example > + > +After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) > +to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. OK. > To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in > graphical applications, consider installing > @code{font-adobe-source-han-sans} or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}. The former I would move the new text below the paragraph about Chinese languages (the paragraph about Chinese languages is about client-side rendering.) Thanks! Ludo’.
Ludovic Courtès (2016-07-02 17:38 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis: > >> * doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Document how to add TrueType fonts >> installed in a Guix profile to the X server font path. > > [...] > >> @@ -1192,6 +1193,24 @@ to display fonts, you have to install fonts >> with Guix as well. >> Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and >> @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}. >> >> +However, some programs do not support Fontconfig and rely on the X >> +server to recognize a font. > > What about: “Older programs such as @command{xterm} do not use > Fontconfig and instead rely on server-side font rendering.”? Sure. [...] >> To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in >> graphical applications, consider installing >> @code{font-adobe-source-han-sans} or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}. The former > > I would move the new text below the paragraph about Chinese languages > (the paragraph about Chinese languages is about client-side rendering.) Right, will do, thanks!
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 62c0d34..0e7b698 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014, 2016 Andreas Enge@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* @@ -1192,6 +1193,24 @@ to display fonts, you have to install fonts with Guix as well. Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}. +However, some programs do not support Fontconfig and rely on the X +server to recognize a font. Such programs require to specify a full +name of a font using XLFD (X Logical Font Description), like this: + +@example +-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-1 +@end example + +To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in +your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server: + +@example +xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype +@end example + +After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) +to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. + To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in graphical applications, consider installing @code{font-adobe-source-han-sans} or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}. The former