On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:32:47PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > 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? >
I was planning to limit it to a single page, with external links. > 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. > See the reply I just sent to William's post : I wanted to keep them in that chapter. > 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. > I like 12x22, particularly on the tiny screen of my netbook. I suppose we could have 'About Console Fonts'. I'm sure there might be fonts in debian wh ic h are not in kbd (does console-tools provide the fonts?), Terminus has at least two enthusiasts, perhaps a link to psftools for editing a font, and a comment about the 256/512 glyph limit. > 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? > I've got enough trouble getting to tlmgr-from-source. If I move TTF/OTF fonts to a separate page, with a link like e.g. "For using modern TTF/OTF fonts see 'Selecting TTF and OTF fonts'" (replacing most of the current text in Xft Font Protocol) then I won't be adding any new packages. In fact, either way I'm not planning to add new packages to the book. But I'm really lacking time. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
