It's time to finally finish this off. Here are the things I see that
need to go in the book.
1. Xorg-6.9 and XFree86-4.5.0 - Add installation commands to symlink
TrueType fonts to a Fontconfig aware location:
ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF
ln -svn /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF
2. Xorg-7 - Add installation commands to symlink TrueType fonts to FC
aware location (requires note about installation prefix). This would
go at the end of Fonts section.
ln -svn /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF
ln -svn /usr/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF
3. Fontconfig - Suppress search for X fonts in configure so FC doesn't
use bitmapped fonts. Use default search path of /usr/share/fonts.
./configure ... --without-add-fonts
4. X Window System Components (TrueType fonts section) - This is where
the most changes will happen. Here's what I'm thinking.
* Mention FC looks in /usr/share/fonts. We made symlinks in X build
to make the X TrueType fonts available in /usr/share/fonts/{TTF,OTF}
* Remove notes about establishing /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory and
maintaining all TrueType fonts there.
* Recommend some fonts: DejaVu, Firefly, etc. Alexander suggests
linking to Unicode font guide. More details in
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1770
* An example font installation. I want to emphasis that all the fonts
do not need to be dumped into one directory and fc-cache should be run
for FC to be aware of the fonts.
* mkfontscale, mkfontdir for any fonts added into /usr/lib/X11/fonts/*
--
Dan
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
