Changeset 7ba67dbe for x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml

Timestamp:

01/28/2017 02:35:20 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, ken/inkscape-core-mods, lazarus, perl-modules, plabs/python-mods, qt5new, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226

Children:

d9994c1

Parents:

273c633

Message:

Move details of the oxygen and noto fonts into the fonts page, instead of separate pages in the kde-frameworks chapter.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@18221 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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

@@ -257 +257 @@
     </para>
 
-    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="kdefonts"
-    xreflabel="kdefonts">Fonts used by KDE</bridgehead>
-
-    <para>
-      When KDE Frameworks 5 began, it used <xref linkend="oxygen-fonts"/>
-      in 'startkde'. Those fonts are no-longer actively maintained, so KDE made
-      a decision to switch to <xref linkend="noto-fonts"/>. At the moment Noto
-      Sans is primarily used when running Gtk applications within KDE, and
-      Oxygen continues to be used by 'startkde'.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      Those pages will eventually be merged into this section. If you use a
-      language which is not written in a latin, greek or cyrillic alphabet then
-      you should probably install at least Noto Sans itself (for any latin,
-      ASCII, common digits and punctuation), perhaps Noto Sans Symbols (for
-      currency symbols) and the separate Noto (Sans, if available) font
-      appropriate to that language, as well as the Oxygen fonts. An updated
-      link to download individual Noto fonts is <ulink
-      url="https://www.google.com/get/noto/">https://www.google.com/get/noto/</ulink>.
-    </para>
-
-    <para>
-      However, you should be aware that <application>fontconfig</application>
-      knows nothing about Noto fonts. The 'Noto Sans Something' fonts are each
-      treated as separate fonts (and for Arabic there is not a specifically Sans
-      name), so if you have other fonts installed then the choice of which font
-      to use for missing glyphs where 'Noto Sans' is specified will be random,
-      except that Sans fonts will be preferred over <emphasis>known</emphasis>
-      Serif and Monospace fonts because Sans is the fallback for unknown fonts.
-    </para>
-
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="freefont"
     xreflabel="freefont">GNU FreeFont</bridgehead>
@@ -372 +340 @@
     </para>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="noto-fonts"
+    xreflabel="Noto fonts">Noto fonts</bridgehead>
+
+    <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts noto-fonts">
+      <primary sortas="a-noto-fonts">Noto fonts</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+    <para>
+      The <ulink
+      url="https://www.google.com/get/noto/">Noto fonts</ulink> ('No Tofu', i.e.
+      avoiding boxes with dots [hex digits] when a glyph cannot be found) is a
+      set of fonts which aim to cover <emphasis>every glyph in unicode, no
+      matter how obscure</emphasis>. These fonts, or at least the Sans Serif
+      fonts, are used by KF5 (initially only for gtk applications). If you want
+      to cover historic languages, you can download all the fonts by clicking
+      on the link at the top of that page.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      People using languages written in Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets need
+      only install Noto Sans itself, and perhaps Noto Sans Symbols for currency
+      symbols. For more details on the CJK fonts see <xref
+      linkend="NotoSansCJK"/> below. There are also separate fonts for every
+      other current writing system, but these too will also require Noto Sans
+      (or Noto Serif) and perhaps Noto Symbols.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      However, you should be aware that <application>fontconfig</application>
+      knows nothing about Noto fonts. The 'Noto Sans Something' fonts are each
+      treated as separate fonts (and for Arabic there is not a specifically Sans
+      name), so if you have other fonts installed then the choice of which font
+      to use for missing glyphs where 'Noto Sans' is specified will be random,
+      except that Sans fonts will be preferred over <emphasis>known</emphasis>
+      Serif and Monospace fonts because Sans is the fallback for unknown fonts.
+    </para>
+
+
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="oxygen-fonts"
+    xreflabel="Oxygen fonts">Oxygen fonts</bridgehead>
+
+    <indexterm zone="TTF-and-OTF-fonts oxygen-fonts">
+      <primary sortas="a-oxygen-fonts">Oxygen fonts</primary>
+    </indexterm>
+
+    <para>
+      When KDE Frameworks 5 was first released, it used the <ulink
+      url="http://download.kde.org/stable/plasma/5.4.3/oxygen-fonts-5.4.3.tar.xz">Oxygen fonts</ulink>
+      which were designed for integrated use with the KDE desktop. Those fonts
+      are no-longer actively maintained, so KDE made a decision to switch to
+      <xref linkend="noto-fonts"/>, but for the moment they are still
+      <emphasis>required</emphasis> by 'startkde'.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      Originally these fonts were only supplied as source, needing <xref
+      linkend="cmake"/> and <xref linkend="fontforge"/> to create the TTF
+      files. But for a while the souce has also included the prepared TTF.
+      The only unusual feature is that each TTF file is in its own subdirectory
+      (<filename class="directory">oxygen-fonts/{*-?00}/</filename>) with the
+      source in further subdirectories. You could just install the whole
+      tarball if you prefer, although that will waste space.
+    </para>
+
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="CJKfonts"
     xreflabel="CJKfonts">CJK fonts:</bridgehead>