Changeset 82ea9e2 for x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml

Timestamp:

11/29/2023 07:58:24 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:

1307636

Parents:

a5d96b7

Message:

tuningfonts -

Use a capital for Fontconfig, to match other packages.

File:

• x/installing/TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (13 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 of
-      fontconfig including how fonts are selected and various reasons why a
+      interface library, with Fontconfig (see previous page for details
+      including how fonts are selected and various reasons why a
       font might be ignored).
     </para>
@@ -136 +136 @@
       In the past, everybody recommended running <command>fc-cache</command>
       as the &root; user after installing or removing fonts, but this is not
-      necessary anymore on Linux, <application>fontconfig</application> will do
+      necessary anymore on Linux, <application>Fontconfig</application> will do
       it automatically if needed as well as if the font caches are more than 30
       seconds old. However, if you add a font and want to use it immediately,
@@ -311 +311 @@
       Georgian and some other glyphs. In the absence of the Bitstream Vera
       fonts (which had much less coverage), these were the default fallback
-      fonts for 'Latin' languages. As of fontconfig-2.14, if the Noto 'Latin'
+      fonts for 'Latin' languages. As of Fontconfig-2.14, if the Noto 'Latin'
       fonts have been installed they will be prioritised ahead of DejaVu.
     </para>
@@ -335 +335 @@
       <ulink url="https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/gelasio">Gelasio</ulink> is
       metrically compatible with MS Georgia and
-      <application>fontconfig</application> will use it if MS Georgia is
+      <application>Fontconfig</application> will use it if MS Georgia is
       requested but is not installed.
     </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 Fontconfig, Freetype and Pango.
       Most people will not want to install any of these fonts.
     </para>
@@ -425 +425 @@
 
     <para>
-      Those three fonts are the first-choice preferences of fontconfig for text
+      Those three fonts are the first-choice preferences of Fontconfig 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 +456 @@
     <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 Fontconfig. 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 Fontconfig - see the previous page.
     </para>
 
@@ -511 +511 @@
 
     <para>
-      For indic languages, fontconfig now prefers Lohit fonts (Sanskrit for 'red').
+      For indic languages, Fontconfig now prefers Lohit fonts (Sanskrit for 'red').
       They can be found at <ulink url=
       "https://releases.pagure.org/lohit/">pagure.org</ulink>          
@@ -528 +528 @@
 
     <para>
-      Also, <application>fontconfig</application> prefers Chinese to Japanese
+      Also, <application>Fontconfig</application> prefers Chinese to Japanese
       by default. Tuning that is covered at <xref linkend="prefer-chosen-CJK-fonts"/>.
     </para>
@@ -548 +548 @@
       written in Mandarin. The UMing HK, Noto Sans HK and WenQuanYi Zen Hei
       fonts all seem to cover Hong Kong usage
-      (<application>fontconfig</application> disagrees about Noto Sans HK).
+      (<application>Fontconfig</application> disagrees about Noto Sans HK).
     </para>
 
@@ -700 +700 @@
       Zen Hei</ulink> provides a Sans-Serif font which covers all CJK scripts
       including Korean. Although it includes old-style conf files, these are
-      not required: <application>fontconfig</application> will already treat
+      not required: <application>Fontconfig</application> will already treat
       these fonts (the 'sharp' contains bitmaps, the monospace appears not
       to be Mono in its ASCII part) as Sans, Serif, and Monospace. If all
@@ -737 +737 @@
       <ulink url='https://moji-or-jp.translate.goog/ipafont/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp'>Google Translate</ulink>
       on the home page, then click on the download link for IPAex Font Ver.004.01.
-      Unfortunately, <application>fontconfig</application> only knows about
+      Unfortunately, <application>Fontconfig</application> only knows about
       the older IPAfonts and the forked IPA Mona font (which is not easily
       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 Fontconfig. Please see <xref
       linkend="prefer-chosen-CJK-fonts"/> for one way to accomplish this.
     </para>
@@ -774 +774 @@
       Gothic are the main Sans fonts. BLFS previously recommended the
       Baekmuk fonts, but the Nanum and Un fonts are now preferred to Baekmuk by
-      <application>fontconfig</application> because of user requests.
+      <application>Fontconfig</application> because of user requests.
     </para>