Changeset d769233

Timestamp:

08/18/2016 03:09:27 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

40273c46

Parents:

29e7797

Message:

Some rewording around the end of Xft Font Protocol: in particular stop recommending the Unicode Font Guide (unmaintained, outdated) and note that noto-fonts are almost complete. Also mention unzip here.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@17643 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• x/installing/xorg-config.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

x/installing/xorg-config.xml

@@ -310 +310 @@
       </itemizedlist>
 
-      <para>The list above will not provide complete Unicode coverage.  For
-      more information, please visit the <ulink
-      url="http://unifont.org/fontguide/">Unicode Font Guide</ulink>.</para>
-
-      <para>Rendered examples of many of the above fonts can be found at this
+      <para>The list above will not provide complete Unicode coverage.
+      Unicode is updated every year, and most additions are now for historic
+      writing systems. For almost-complete coverage you can install <xref
+      linkend="noto-fonts"/> (about 180 fonts when last checked) but that
+      number of fonts makes it <emphasis>much</emphasis> less convenient to
+      select a specific font in a document, and most people will regard many
+      of them as a waste of space. We used to recommend the <ulink
+      url="http://unifont.org/fontguide/">Unicode Font Guide</ulink>, but that
+      has not been updated since 2008 and many of its links are dead.</para>
+
+      <para>Rendered examples of most of the above fonts, and many others,
+      can be found at this
       <ulink url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html#examples">
-      font analysis</ulink> site.</para>
+      font analysis</ulink> page.</para>
 
       <para>As a font installation example, consider the installation of the
@@ -325 +332 @@
 install -v -m644 *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/dejavu &amp;&amp;
 fc-cache -v /usr/share/fonts/dejavu</userinput></screen>
+
+      <para>Fonts are often supplied in zip files, requiring <xref linkend="unzip"/>
+      to list and extract them, but even if the current release is a tarball
+      you should still check to see if it will create a directory.</para>
 
     </sect2>