Ken Moffat wrote:
Proposal (to address parts 2 to 4)
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I suggest that we ought to provide a new page with general coverage
of TTF/OTF fonts, replacing the Xft Font Protocol section and listing
alternate modern fonts for CJK languages and otherwise not going into
too much detail except where it is needed (Noto/noto below). And
move the oxygen and Noto/noto fonts to that page. The oxygen fonts
can drop out if kde stop requiring them. For oxygen, just note that
the TTFs are in the tarball in various subdirectories.
Call it "Choosing TTF and/or OTF fonts"
Put it at the end of the X Window System Environment ch apter.
Add it as a recommended runtime dependency for ALL desktop
environments, also (at least) firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird.
Probably also mention that people need to check not only if the
package creates its own directory, but how any subdirectories are
structured.
You are the expert on fonts, so I defer to your judgement about what to
say. As for where they would go, would it be appropriate to have a
separate section like we do for Icons? Or would that be overkill?
We have several sections like 'About Firmware', 'About Devices', 'About
initramfs', 'About LVM', 'About RAID', etc. Would it be appropriate to
have an 'About Fonts' section?
I still would like to leave the fonts section in the Xorg chapter so when
the chapter is complete that a basic X window with xterm comes up. I
don't mind reducing the list or commenting out some or most of the fonts
listed with a note or section explaining what are needed.
I'd like to see a mention of terminus fonts. I find them very useful for
the console when a display manager is not used. My personal preference is
ter-128n. Otherwise the default glyphs are very tiny.
The last thing I'd like to mention is that we have a package freeze coming
up in a couple of days. At that point we need to build/check literally
every package in the book. How much time do you need to do this? Would
it be batter to put it off until after 7.10?
-- Bruce
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