Changeset 056b4ceb

Timestamp:

08/30/2023 12:23:44 AM (9 months ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

a41ab12f

Parents:

32f90b1

Message:

Minor spelling/gramamr updates

File:

• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (8 diffs)

x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml

@@ -47 +47 @@
       If a font provides both TTF and OTF forms, prefer the OTF form in
       linux, it may provide more features for programs which know how to use them
-      (such as xelatex). But if a font is suppliedi with one or more variable fonts,
+      (such as xelatex). But if a font is supplied with one or more variable fonts,
       do not use those - desktop applications need static fonts. For information
       about variable fonts see <ulink
@@ -56 +56 @@
 
     <para>
-      For some scripts <application>pango</application> is required to
+      For some scripts, <application>pango</application> is required to
       render things correctly, either by selecting different glyph forms, or by
       combining glyphs - in both cases, according to the context. This applies
@@ -64 +64 @@
     <para>
       Standard scalable fonts that come with <application>X</application>
-      provide very poor Unicode coverage.  You may notice in applications that
-      use <application>Xft</application> that some characters appear as a box
-      with four binary digits inside.  In this case, a font with the
-      required glyphs has not been found.  Other times, applications that
-      don't use other font families by default and don't accept substitutions
-      from <application>Fontconfig</application> will display blank lines when
-      the default font doesn't cover the orthography of the user's language.
+      provide very poor Unicode coverage.  In applications that use
+      <application>Xft</application> you may notice that some characters appear
+      as a box with four binary digits inside.  In this case, a font with the
+      required glyphs has not been found.  Other times, applications that don't
+      use other font families by default and don't accept substitutions from
+      <application>Fontconfig</application> will display blank lines when the
+      default font doesn't cover the orthography of the user's language.
     </para>
 
@@ -92 +92 @@
     <para>
       In the past, everybody recommended running <command>fc-cache</command>
-      as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user after installing
-      or removing fonts, but this is no-longer necessary on linux,
+      as the &root; user after installing
+      or removing fonts, but this is no-longer necessary on linux.
       <application>fontconfig</application> will do it automatically if needed and
       if its caches are more than 30 seconds old. But if you add a font and want to
@@ -149 +149 @@
     <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
+      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 (scattering
       the contents of a zipfile or tarball across the current directory can be
@@ -164 +164 @@
       <xref linkend="dejavu-fonts"/>. In this particular package, the TTF files
       are in a subdirectory. From the unpacked source directory, run the
-      following commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
-      user:
+      following commands as the &root;  user:
     </para>
 
@@ -188 +187 @@
 
     <para>
-      To provide greater Unicode coverage, you are recommended to install
+      To provide greater Unicode coverage, install
       some of the following fonts, depending on what websites and languages you
       wish to read.  The next part of this page details some fonts which cover
@@ -196 +195 @@
     <note>
       <para>
-        You are strongly recommended to install the <xref
-        linkend="dejavu-fonts"/>.
+        Installation of the <xref
+        linkend="dejavu-fonts"/> is strongly recommended. 
       </para>
     </note>