Changeset 3ff7901

Timestamp:

11/28/2023 12:44:48 AM (6 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

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

Children:

b52945a

Parents:

ac35d3b

git-author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (11/28/2023 12:42:13 AM)

git-committer:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (11/28/2023 12:44:48 AM)

Message:

tuningfonts:

Flesh out the details of preferred non-latin fonts.

Also fix a typo in a changed link.

File:

• x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -214 +214 @@
 
     <sect2 role="configuration" id="the-various-files" xreflabel="The configuration files">
-    <title>The configuation files</title>
+    <title>The configuration files</title>
 
     <para>
@@ -328 +328 @@
       provides ordered lists of the fallbacks - <xref linkend="noto-fonts"/>
       will be used if you installed them. Cyrillic and Greek appear to be
-      treated in the same way. There are similar files with a 65- prefix for
-      Persian and other writing systems. All of these files prefer
+      treated in the same way.All of these files prefer
       commercial fonts if they are present, although modern libre fonts are
       often at least equal. Finally, if a codepoint is still not found it can
@@ -337 +336 @@
 
     <para>
-      Before fontconfig-2.14, the first preferred font family was Bitstream
+      Default Persion fonts are dealt with in
+      <filename>65-fonts-persian.conf</filename>. It looks as if all the listed
+      fonts are commercial. Using fonts that support Persian (which has its own
+      variant of the arabic alphabet, and its own font styles) is outside the
+      skills of the BLFS editors.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      All remaining scripts for which fontconfig has preferences (CJK scripts,
+      Indic scripts) are dealt with in <filename>65-nonlatin.conf</filename>.
+      These are again nominally grouped as Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace. Of the
+      free fonts, WenQuanYi Zen Hei (Pan-CJK Sans) comes first for both Serif
+      and for Sans. Therefore, if you install this as a fallback but want to
+      use different fonts for Japanese or Korean you will need to set up a
+      preference. Similarly, the old fireflysung Serif font is also listed for
+      Sans.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      After Pan-CJK and Chinese fonts come several Japanese fonts and then
+      several Korean fonts (both split appropriately between Sans and Serif).
+      Finally come the various Lohit Indic families (one font file per script),
+      labelled as both Sans and Serif.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The Monospace fonts listed in <filename>65-nonlatin.conf</filename> do
+      not include WenQuanYi Zen Hei although that will be available as a
+      fallback if installed. Several Japanese Gothic fonts are listed, followed
+      by AR PL KaitiM GB (a zh-sc 'Brush' font), AR PL Serif fonts for zh-sc
+      (SungtiL) and zh-tw (Mingti2L), some Korean Sans fonts and the various
+     Lohit Indic families.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+     For UI fonts, various Noto Sans UI fonts are the only listed free fonts.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The various Noto CJK fonts are <emphasis>not</emphasis> among the listed
+      fonts, possibly the RedHat developers preferred other fonts.  These now
+      come in many variations, probably anyone who uses these will not install
+      any other CJK fonts.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Before fontconfig-2.14, the first preferred Latin font family was Bitstream
       Vera. In practice that was rarely used because it covered so little. After
       that, DejaVu was the next preferred family, so people were recommended to