Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 3/16/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please install the Firefly font for Chinese, Kochi fonts for Japanese
and Baekmuk for Korean.
Yes, DejaVu fonts are for European languages only.
http://cle.linux.org.tw/fonts/FireFly/fireflysung-1.3.0.tar.gz
http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.jp/efont/4845/kochi-substitute-20030628.tar.bz2
http://kldp.net/frs/download.php/1429/baekmuk-ttf-2.2.tar.gz
Interesting. It looks like the Font Configuration section should be
fleshed out considerably.
Indeed.
I'm going to add a few comments to #1770, but I'm gonna throw out this
idea now. Fontconfig now scans the directory /etc/fonts/conf.d for
files starting with 2 numbers and includes them in the configuration.
Moving ahead from the info in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3322 and
http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2005-December/012685.html,
it seems like we could add some custom rules that would help locale
coverage. (Alexander, I'm going to butcher this, but I just want to
throw out the idea.)
cat > /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-preferred.conf << "EOF"
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-preferred.conf file to configure preferred fonts -->
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Serif</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Sans</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>DejaVu Mono</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
EOF
That's really interesting. Experience shows that many people don't read
the page about configuring X windows fonts. For them, the symlink to the
TTF fonts from /usr/share/fonts will be enough to get a basic working
configuration.
But for people like me who want to have more control over how fonts are
used on the system, this info about how to use the files in
/etc/fonts/conf.d is very interesting. This should definitely be in the
book. Thanks Dan
Andy
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