Author: ken
Date: Wed Aug 17 20:09:27 2016
New Revision: 17643
Log:
Some rewording around the end of Xft Font Protocol: in particular stop
recommending the Unicode Font Guide (unmaintained, outdated) and note that
noto-fonts are almost complete. Also mention unzip here.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/x/installing/xorg-config.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/xorg-config.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/xorg-config.xml Wed Aug 17 18:47:17 2016
(r17642)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/xorg-config.xml Wed Aug 17 20:09:27 2016
(r17643)
@@ -309,13 +309,20 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <para>The list above will not provide complete Unicode coverage. For
- more information, please visit the <ulink
- url="http://unifont.org/fontguide/";>Unicode Font Guide</ulink>.</para>
+ <para>The list above will not provide complete Unicode coverage.
+ Unicode is updated every year, and most additions are now for historic
+ writing systems. For almost-complete coverage you can install <xref
+ linkend="noto-fonts"/> (about 180 fonts when last checked) but that
+ number of fonts makes it <emphasis>much</emphasis> less convenient to
+ select a specific font in a document, and most people will regard many
+ of them as a waste of space. We used to recommend the <ulink
+ url="http://unifont.org/fontguide/";>Unicode Font Guide</ulink>, but that
+ has not been updated since 2008 and many of its links are dead.</para>
- <para>Rendered examples of many of the above fonts can be found at this
+ <para>Rendered examples of most of the above fonts, and many others,
+ can be found at this
<ulink url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html#examples";>
- font analysis</ulink> site.</para>
+ font analysis</ulink> page.</para>
<para>As a font installation example, consider the installation of the
DejaVu fonts. From the unpacked source directory, run the following
@@ -325,6 +332,10 @@
install -v -m644 *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu &&
fc-cache -v /usr/share/fonts/dejavu</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Fonts are often supplied in zip files, requiring <xref
linkend="unzip"/>
+ to list and extract them, but even if the current release is a tarball
+ you should still check to see if it will create a directory.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration" id='xconfig'>
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