Changeset 71df408 for x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml
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rbdfc854 r71df408 208 208 xreflabel="Caladea">Caladea</bridgehead> 209 209 210 <para><ulink 211 url="http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-20130214.tar.gz">Caladea</ulink> 210 <para> 211 <ulink url= 212 "http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-20130214.tar.gz">Caladea</ulink> 212 213 (created as a Chrome OS extra font, hence the 'crosextrafonts' tarball 213 name) is metrically compatible with MS Cambria and can be used if you have 214 to edit a document which somebody started in Microsoft Office using 215 Cambria and then return it to them.</para> 214 name) is metrically compatible with MS Cambria and can be used if you 215 have to edit a document which somebody started in Microsoft Office using 216 Cambria and then return it to them. 217 </para> 216 218 217 219 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="cantarell-fonts" … … 222 224 </indexterm> 223 225 224 <para><ulink 225 url="&gnome-download-http;/cantarell-fonts/0.0/">Cantarell fonts</ulink> 226 - The Cantarell typeface family provides a contemporary Humanist sans 227 serif. It is particularly optimised for legibility at small sizes and is 228 the preferred font family for the <application>GNOME-3</application> user 229 interface.</para> 226 <para> 227 <ulink url= 228 "&gnome-download-http;/cantarell-fonts/0.0/">Cantarell fonts</ulink> 229 – The Cantarell typeface family provides a contemporary Humanist 230 sans serif. It is particularly optimised for legibility at small sizes 231 and is the preferred font family for the 232 <application>GNOME-3</application> user interface. 233 </para> 230 234 231 235 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="Carlito" 232 236 xreflabel="Carlito">Carlito</bridgehead> 233 237 234 <para><ulink 235 url="http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-carlito-20130920.tar.gz">Carlito</ulink> 238 <para> 239 <ulink url= 240 "http://gsdview.appspot.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/crosextrafonts-carlito-20130920.tar.gz">Carlito</ulink> 236 241 (created as another Chrome OS extra font, again the 'crosextrafonts-' 237 242 prefix in the tarball name) is metrically compatible with MS Calibri and 238 243 can be used if you have to edit a document which somebody started in 239 Microsoft Office using Calibri and then return it to them.</para> 244 Microsoft Office using Calibri and then return it to them. 245 </para> 240 246 241 247 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="dejavu-fonts" … … 249 255 <ulink 250 256 url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu/files/dejavu/">DejaVu 251 fonts</ulink> - These fonts are an extension of, and replacement for, the 252 Bitstream Vera fonts and provide Latin-based scripts with accents and 253 punctuation such as "smart-quotes" and variant spacing characters, as well 254 as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian and some other 255 glyphs. In the absence of the Bitstream Vera fonts (which had much less 256 coverage), these are the default fallback fonts. 257 fonts</ulink> – These fonts are an extension of, and replacement 258 for, the Bitstream Vera fonts and provide Latin-based scripts with 259 accents and punctuation such as "smart-quotes" and variant spacing 260 characters, as well as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, 261 Georgian and some other glyphs. In the absence of the Bitstream Vera 262 fonts (which had much less coverage), these are the default fallback 263 fonts. 257 264 </para> 258 265 … … 261 268 262 269 <para> 263 <ulink url="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/">GNU 264 FreeFont</ulink> -This set of fonts covers many non-CJK characters, in270 <ulink url="https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freefont/">GNU FreeFont</ulink> 271 – This set of fonts covers many non-CJK characters, in 265 272 particular some of the variants of latin and cyrillic letters used in 266 273 minority languages, but the glyphs are comparatively small (unlike DejaVu … … 308 315 xreflabel="corefonts">Microsoft Core Fonts</bridgehead> 309 316 310 <para>The <ulink url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/">Microsoft Core 311 fonts</ulink> date from 2002. They were supplied with old versions of 312 Microsoft Windows and were apparently made available for general use. 313 You can extract them from the 'exe' files using 314 <application>bsd-tar</application> from <xref linkend="libarchive"/>. 315 Be sure to read the license before using them. At one time some of 316 these fonts (particularly Arial, Times New Roman, and to a lesser 317 extent Courier New) were widely specified on web pages. The full set 318 contains Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier 319 New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and 320 Webdings. 317 <para> 318 The <ulink url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/">Microsoft Core 319 fonts</ulink> date from 2002. They were supplied with old versions of 320 Microsoft Windows and were apparently made available for general use. 321 You can extract them from the 'exe' files using 322 <application>bsd-tar</application> from <xref linkend="libarchive"/>. 323 Be sure to read the license before using them. At one time some of 324 these fonts (particularly Arial, Times New Roman, and to a lesser 325 extent Courier New) were widely specified on web pages. The full set 326 contains Andale Mono, Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier 327 New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and 328 Webdings. 321 329 </para> 322 330 … … 387 395 388 396 <para> 389 When KDE Frameworks 5 was first released, it used the <ulink 390 url="http://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/5.4.3/oxygen-fonts-5.4.3.tar.xz">Oxygen fonts</ulink> 397 When KDE Frameworks 5 was first released, it used the <ulink url= 398 "http://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/5.4.3/oxygen-fonts-5.4.3.tar.xz"> 399 Oxygen fonts</ulink> 391 400 which were designed for integrated use with the KDE desktop. Those fonts 392 401 are no-longer actively maintained, so KDE made a decision to switch to … … 415 424 <para> 416 425 This set of fonts from Adobe (seven different weights) includes what is 417 now the preferred monospace font for those applications which use 418 <xref linkend="gsettings-desktop-schemas"/>. The github release <ulink 419 url="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.git#release">source-code-pro</ulink> 426 now the preferred monospace font for those applications which use <xref 427 linkend="gsettings-desktop-schemas"/>. The github release <ulink url= 428 "https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro.git#release"> 429 source-code-pro</ulink> 420 430 contains OTF (preferred) and TTF as well as the source and WOFF fonts. 421 431 </para> … … 426 436 427 437 <para> 428 There is also an older TTF version of this available from <ulink 429 url="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro?selection.family=Source+Code+Pro">Google430 fonts</ulink> but that has very limited coverage (adequate for most438 There is also an older TTF version of this available from <ulink url= 439 "https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro?selection.family=Source+Code+Pro"> 440 Google fonts</ulink> but that has very limited coverage (adequate for most 431 441 European languages using a latin alphabet). 432 442 </para> … … 492 502 493 503 <!-- prefer the less-old Opendesktop-fonts to fireflysung 494 495 496 497 498 <ulink499 url="http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/Xorg//fireflysung-1.3.0.tar.gz">fireflysung</ulink>500 -This font ('AR PL New Sung') was one of the first libre fonts to501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 - Sans-Serif sets of all CJK fonts in a ttc - as the link says, you can516 choose to install the TTC and cover all the languages in all weights in517 a 110MB file, or you can download subsets. There are also Monospace518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 504 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="fireflysung" 505 xreflabel="fireflysung">Fireflysung</bridgehead> 506 507 <para> 508 <ulink url= 509 "http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/Xorg//fireflysung-1.3.0.tar.gz">fireflysung</ulink> 510 – This font ('AR PL New Sung') was one of the first libre fonts to 511 provides Chinese coverage. <application>fontconfig</application> knows 512 it is to be treated as a Serif font. 513 </para> --> 514 515 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="NotoSansCJK" 516 xreflabel="Noto Sans CJK">Noto Sans CJK</bridgehead> 517 518 <!-- indexterm entry retained for future linkage from kde --> 519 <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts NotoSansCJK"> 520 <primary sortas="a-noto-sans-cjk">Noto Sans CJK</primary> 521 </indexterm> 522 523 <para><ulink 524 url="https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/">Noto Sans CJK</ulink> 525 – Sans-Serif sets of all CJK fonts in a ttc – as the link 526 says, you can choose to install the TTC and cover all the languages in 527 all weights in a 110MB file, or you can download subsets. There are 528 also Monospace versions. 529 </para> 530 531 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="Opendesktop-fonts" 532 xreflabel="Opendesktop-fonts">Opendesktop fonts</bridgehead> 533 534 <para>A copy of version 1.4.2 of the <ulink 535 url="https://sources.archlinux.org/other/opendesktop-fonts/">opendesktop-fonts</ulink> 536 is preserved at Arch. This was a later development of fireflysung which 537 BLFS used to recommend, adding Kai and Mono fonts. The name of the Sung 538 font remains 'AR PL New Sung' so they cannot both be installed together. 539 </para> 540 541 <para> 542 At one time there was a 1.6 release, and more recently some versions at 543 github, which also included a Sans font (Odohei), but those have dropped 544 off the web and it is unclear if there was a problem. 545 <application>Fontconfig</application> does not know anything about the 546 later fonts (AR PL New Kai, AR PL New Sung Mono) and will default to 547 treating them as Sans. 548 </para> 539 549 540 550 <!-- comment, because not recommended 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 -sets of Chinese Kai fonts in a ttc which contain variations of548 549 550 551 552 553 551 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="UKai" 552 xreflabel="UKai">UKai</bridgehead> 553 554 <para> 555 <ulink 556 url="http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-arphic-ukai">UKai fonts</ulink> 557 – sets of Chinese Kai fonts in a ttc which contain variations of 558 Simplified and Traditional (Taiwanese, second variant for different 559 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo">bopomofo</ulink>, 560 and Cantonese). This ships with old-syntax files which can install to 561 <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d/</filename> but see <xref 562 linkend="editing-old-style-conf-files"/>. 563 </para> 554 564 --> 555 565 556 557 558 559 560 <ulink561 url="http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-arphic-uming">UMing fonts</ulink>562 - sets of Chinese Ming fonts (from Debian, use the '.orig' tarball) in563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 566 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="UMing" 567 xreflabel="UMing">UMing</bridgehead> 568 569 <para> 570 <ulink url= 571 "http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-arphic-uming">UMing fonts</ulink> 572 – sets of Chinese Ming fonts (from Debian, use the '.orig' tarball) 573 in a ttc which contain variations of Simplified and Traditional Chinese 574 (Taiwanese, with second variant for different 575 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo">bopomofo</ulink>, 576 and Cantonese for Hong Kong). This ships with old-syntax files which you 577 can install to 578 <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d/</filename> but see <xref 579 linkend="editing-old-style-conf-files"/>. 580 </para> 581 582 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="wenquanyi-zenhei" 583 xreflabel="WenQuanYi ZenHei">WenQuanYi Zen Hei</bridgehead> 584 585 <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts wenquanyi-zenhei"> 586 <primary sortas="a-wenquanyi-zenhei">WenQuanYi Zen Hei</primary> 587 </indexterm> 588 589 <para> 590 <ulink 591 url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/wqy/files/wqy-zenhei/">WenQuanYi 592 Zen Hei</ulink> provides a Sans-Serif font which covers all CJK scripts 593 including Korean. Although it includes old-style conf files, these are 594 not required: <application>fontconfig</application> will already treat 595 these fonts (the 'sharp' contains bitmaps, the monospace appears not 596 to be Mono in its ASCII part) as Sans, Serif, and Monospace. If all 597 you wish to do is to be able to render Han and Korean text without 598 worrying about the niceties of the shapes used, the main font from 599 this package is a good font to use. 600 </para> 591 601 592 602 … … 594 604 xreflabel="Japanese fonts">Japanese fonts:</bridgehead> 595 605 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 606 <para> 607 In Japanese, Gothic fonts are Sans, Mincho are Serif. BLFS used to 608 only mention the Kochi fonts, but those appear to now be the 609 least-preferred of the Japanese fonts. 610 </para> 611 612 <para> 613 Apart from the fonts detailed below, also consider <xref 614 linkend="NotoSansCJK"/>. 615 </para> 616 617 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="IPAex" 618 xreflabel="IPAex fonts">IPAex fonts</bridgehead> 619 620 <!-- indexterm retained for expected link from tuning fontconfig --> 621 <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts IPAex"> 622 <primary sortas="a-ipaex-fonts">IPAex fonts</primary> 623 </indexterm> 624 625 <para> 626 The <ulink url="http://ipafont.ipa.go.jp/">IPAex fonts</ulink> are 627 the current version of the IPA fonts. Click on 'English' at the link and 628 then click on the Download icon to find IPAex Font Ver.003.01. 629 Unfortunately, <application>fontconfig</application> only knows about 630 the older IPAfonts and the forked IPA Mona font (which is not easily 631 available and which apparently does not meet Debian's Free Software 632 guidelines). Therefore if you install the IPAex fonts you may wish 633 to make it known to fontconfig, see <xref 634 linkend="prefer-chosen-CJK-fonts"/> for one possible way to do this. 635 </para> 636 637 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="Kochi" 638 xreflabel="Kochi">Kochi fonts</bridgehead> 639 640 <para> 641 The <ulink url="https://osdn.net/projects/efont/releases/p1357">Kochi 642 Substitute fonts</ulink> were the first truly libre Japanese fonts (the 643 earlier Kochi fonts were allegedly plagiarized from a commercial font). 644 </para> 645 646 <bridgehead renderas="sect4" id="VLGothic" 647 xreflabel="VL Gothic">VL Gothic</bridgehead> 648 649 <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts VLGothic"> 650 <primary sortas="a-vlgothic-fonts">VL Gothic</primary> 651 </indexterm> 652 653 <para> 654 The <ulink url="https://osdn.net/projects/vlgothic/releases/">VL 655 Gothic</ulink> font is a modern Japanese font in two variants with 656 monotonic or proportional spacing for the non-Japanese characters. 657 </para> 648 658 649 659 … … 674 684 </para> 675 685 676 <para>Alternatively, consider <xref linkend="NotoSansCJK"/> (all of the 686 <para> 687 Alternatively, consider <xref linkend="NotoSansCJK"/> (all of the 677 688 variants cover Hangul) or <xref linkend="wenquanyi-zenhei"/>. 678 689 </para> 679 690 680 691 </sect2> 681 692 682 693 </sect1>
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