Changeset 1307636 for x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml

Timestamp:

11/29/2023 08:31:29 AM (10 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.1, 12.2, gimp3, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128

Children:

f57d8fc

Parents:

82ea9e2

Message:

tuningfonts -

We use <application> in the markup for all package names. Do that
consistently for rendered text on these pages, except when referring
to a version of a package.

File:

• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

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

@@ -27 +27 @@
       Type1 fonts were added, but the desktop world moved on to using TrueType
       and Open Type fonts. To support these, Xorg uses Xft, the X FreeType
-      interface library, with Fontconfig (see previous page for details
-      including how fonts are selected and various reasons why a
-      font might be ignored).
+      interface library, with <application>Fontconfig</application> (see
+      previous page for details including how fonts are selected and various
+      reasons why a font might be ignored).
     </para>
 
@@ -388 +388 @@
       Although many old posts recommend installing these fonts for
       output which looks better, less old posts say that these are
-      'ugly' or 'broken' with modern Fontconfig, Freetype and Pango.
+      'ugly' or 'broken' with modern <application>Fontconfig</application>,
+      <application>Freetype</application> and <application>Pango.</application>
       Most people will not want to install any of these fonts.
     </para>
@@ -425 +426 @@
 
     <para>
-      Those three fonts are the first-choice preferences of Fontconfig for text
+      Those three fonts are the first-choice preferences of
+      <application>Fontconfig</application> for text
       in those three alphabets, and they are updated frequently to cover recent
       Unicode additions such as the extensions for phonetic transcription in
@@ -456 +458 @@
     <para>
       For writing systems not using the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets the
-      Noto fonts are not preferred by Fontconfig. If you use a Noto font for
+      Noto fonts are not preferred by <application>Fontconfig</application>.
+      If you use a Noto font for
       a modern language where another installed font also covers it (e.g. the
       DejaVu conts cover several Right-to-Left alphabets), you might need to
-      set a preference for Fontconfig - see the previous page.
+      set a preference for <application>Fontconfig</application> - see the
+      previous page.
     </para>
 
@@ -511 +515 @@
 
     <para>
-      For indic languages, Fontconfig now prefers Lohit fonts (Sanskrit for 'red').
-      They can be found at <ulink url=
+      For indic languages, <application>Fontconfig</application> now prefers
+      Lohit fonts (Sanskrit for 'red'). They can be found at <ulink url=
       "https://releases.pagure.org/lohit/">pagure.org</ulink>          
     </para>
@@ -741 +745 @@
       available and which apparently does not meet Debian's Free Software
       guidelines). If you install the IPAex fonts, you may want to make it known
-      to Fontconfig. Please see <xref
+      to <application>Fontconfig</application>. Please see <xref
       linkend="prefer-chosen-CJK-fonts"/> for one way to accomplish this.
     </para>