Changeset c3af16e for x

Timestamp:

10/11/2004 03:02:30 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Igor Živković <igor@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

8337334

Parents:

7461475

Message:

Added download locations for TrueType fonts and a note about editing font.alias file for i18n users, contributed by Alexander E. Patrakov.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@2786 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

x/installing

Files:

• x-setup.xml (modified) (3 diffs)
• xorg.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/x-setup.xml

@@ -55 +55 @@
 <application>TrueType</application> fonts you want into that directory.</para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>Download the fonts.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>Create the <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and 
 <filename>fonts.dir</filename> files in the
@@ -83 +85 @@
 your <application>TrueType</application> fonts there.</para></sect3>
 
+<sect3><title>Download the fonts</title>
+
+<para>There are two known high quality free font resources:
+<ulink url="http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/"/> and <ulink
+url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/"/>. Copy the fonts (files with
+the <filename>.ttf</filename> suffix) to the directory you've just
+created.</para>
+    
+</sect3>
+
 <sect3><title>Create <filename>fonts.scale</filename> and 
 <filename>fonts.dir</filename></title>
@@ -163 +175 @@
 between keyboard layouts and use the Scroll Lock <acronym>LED</acronym> to indicate when
 the second layout is active.</para>
+</sect2>
+
+<!-- ================================================== -->
+<sect2>
+<title>Setting up fonts</title>
+<para>For users not using the <acronym>ISO</acronym>-8859-1 locale, the 
+<filename>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias</filename> file must
+be edited to ensure the fonts with the correct encoding are used for
+"fixed", "variable", "10x20" and similar aliases.</para>
 </sect2>
 

x/installing/xorg.xml

@@ -334 +334 @@
 comes up closer to 100 dots per inch.  You may want to remove some font
 directories completely.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>Section "Module". If you are going to install NVidia
+drivers remove the "dri" line.</para></listitem>
  
 <listitem><para>Sections "InputDevice". Specify the