Changeset 437fc48c

Timestamp:

08/06/2019 08:15:13 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 9.0, 9.1, kea, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

256e1e84

Parents:

f95e57bf

Message:

TTF/OTF fonts - for Source Code Pro prefer the version at github.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@21902 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -46 +46 @@
       <para>August 6th, 2019</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Update details for Source Code Pro in TTF/OTF
+          fonts, the Adobe version from github has better coverage.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Update to gtk-doc-1.31. Fixes

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

@@ -416 +416 @@
       This set of fonts from Adobe (seven different weights) includes what is
       now the preferred monospace font for those applications which use
-      <xref linkend="gsettings-desktop-schemas"/>. Either download the full set of
-      source, OTF, TTF, WOFF fonts from <ulink
-      url="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.git#release">Source Code
-      Pro</ulink> or just the TTF fonts from <ulink
+      <xref linkend="gsettings-desktop-schemas"/>. The github release <ulink
+      url="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.git#release">source-code-pro</ulink>
+      contains OTF (preferred) and TTF as well as the source and WOFF fonts.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      To use this in terminals, you probably only want the Regular font.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      There is also an older TTF version of this available from <ulink
       url="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro?selection.family=Source+Code+Pro">Google
-      fonts</ulink>
+      fonts</ulink> but that has very limited coverage (adequate for most
+      European languages using a latin alphabet).
     </para>