source: x/installing/x7font.xml@ 3b69a2aa

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY x7fonts-download-http "http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/font/">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-wget          "&files-anduin;/xorg/font-&xorg7-release;.wget">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-md5sum        "&files-anduin;/xorg/font-&xorg7-release;.md5">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-size          "14.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-buildsize     "269 MB">
  <!ENTITY x7fonts-time          "2.0 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="xorg7-font" xreflabel="Xorg Fonts">
  <?dbhtml filename="x7font.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Xorg Fonts</title>

  <indexterm zone="xorg7-font">
    <primary sortas="a-xorg7-font">Xorg Fonts</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Xorg Fonts</title>

    <para>The <application>Xorg</application> font packages provide
    needed fonts to the <application>Xorg</application> applications.</para>

    &lfs67_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&x7fonts-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&x7fonts-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: <ulink url="&x7fonts-md5sum;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &x7fonts-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &x7fonts-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &x7fonts-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Required download list: <ulink url="&x7fonts-wget;"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="xorg7-app"/> and
    <xref linkend="xcursor-themes"/></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/Xorg7Fonts'/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2>
    <title>Downloading Xorg Fonts</title>

    <para>To download the needed files using <application>wget</application>,
    use the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir font &amp;&amp;
cd font &amp;&amp;
grep -v '^#' ../font-&xorg7-release;.wget | wget -i- -c \
    -B http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font/ &amp;&amp;
md5sum -c ../font-&xorg7-release;.md5</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Xorg Fonts</title>

    <para>Run the following commands for each package:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure $XORG_CONFIG &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>These packages do not provide test suites.</para>

    <para>Now as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
    user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>When all of the fonts have been installed, the system must be
    configured so that <application>Fontconfig</application> can find the
    TrueType fonts since they are outside of the default search path of
    <filename class="directory">/usr/share/fonts</filename>.  Make symlinks
    to the <application>Xorg</application> TrueType font directories by
    running the following commands as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts &amp;&amp;
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF &amp;&amp;
ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/share/fonts/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-TTF</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bdftruncate</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg><envar>$XORG_PREFIX</envar>/share/fonts</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="bdftruncate-x7">
        <term><command>bdftruncate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>generates a truncated BDF font from an ISO 10646-1-encoded
          BDF font.</para>
          <indexterm zone="xorg7-font bdftruncate-x7">
            <primary sortas="b-bdftruncate">bdftruncate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>