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-    <sect2 role="configuration" id="xft-font-protocol"  xreflabel="Xft Font Protocol">
-      <title>Xft Font Protocol</title>
-      <indexterm zone="xft-font-protocol" id="fonts">
-        <primary sortas="g-truetype">TrueType Fonts</primary>
-      </indexterm>
-      <para>Xft provides antialiased font rendering through
-      <application>Freetype</application>, and fonts are controlled from the
-      client side using <application>Fontconfig</application>.  The default
-      search path is <filename class="directory">/usr/share/fonts</filename>
-      and <filename class="directory">~/.fonts</filename>.
-      <application>Fontconfig</application> searches directories in its
-      path recursively and maintains a cache of the font characteristics in
-      <filename>fonts.cache-1</filename> files in each directory.  If the cache
-      appears to be out of date, it is ignored, and information is (slowly)
-      fetched from the fonts themselves.  This cache
-      can be regenerated using the <command>fc-cache</command> command at any
-      time. You can see the list of fonts known by
-      <application>Fontconfig</application> by running the command
-      <command>fc-list</command>.</para>
-      <para>If you've installed <application>Xorg</application> in any prefix
-      other than <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>, the
-      <application>X</application> fonts were not installed in a
-      location known to <application>Fontconfig</application>. This prevents
-      <application>Fontconfig</application> from using the poorly rendered
-      Type 1 fonts or the non-scalable bitmapped fonts. Symlinks were created
-      from the <filename class="directory">OTF</filename> and <filename
-      class="directory">TTF</filename> <application>X</application> font
-      directories to <filename
-      class="directory">/usr/share/fonts/X11-{OTF,TTF}</filename>. This allows
-      <application>Fontconfig</application> to use the OpenType and TrueType
-      fonts provided by <application>X</application> (which are scalable and
-      of higher quality).</para>
-      <para><application>Fontconfig</application> uses names such as
-      "Monospace 12" to define fonts.  Applications generally use generic font
-      names such as "Monospace", "Sans" and "Serif".
-      <application>Fontconfig</application> resolves these names to a font that
-      has all characters that cover the orthography of the language indicated
-      by the locale settings.  Knowledge of these font names is included in
-      <filename>/etc/fonts/fonts.conf</filename>. Fonts that are not listed
-      in this file are still usable by <application>Fontconfig</application>,
-      but they will not be accessible by the generic family names.</para>
-      <para>Standard scalable fonts that come with <application>X</application>
-      provide very poor Unicode coverage.  You may notice in applications that
-      use <application>Xft</application> that some characters appear as a box
-      with four binary digits inside.  In this case, a font set with the
-      available glyphs has not been found.  Other times, applications that
-      don't use other font families by default and don't accept substitutions
-      from <application>Fontconfig</application> will display blank lines when
-      the default font doesn't cover the orthography of the user's language.
-      This happens, e.g., with <application>Fluxbox</application> in the
-      ru_RU.KOI8-R locale.</para>
-      <para>In order to provide greater Unicode coverage, it is recommended
-      that you install these fonts:</para>
-      <itemizedlist>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink url="http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/">DejaVu fonts</ulink>
-          - These fonts are replacements for the Bitstream Vera fonts and
-          provide Latin-based scripts with accents and Cyrillic glyphs.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/freefont/">FreeFont</ulink>
-          - This set of fonts covers nearly every non-CJK character, but is not
-          visually pleasing.  <application>Fontconfig</application> will use it
-          as a last resort to substitute generic font family names.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/">Microsoft Core fonts</ulink>
-          - These fonts provide slightly worse Unicode coverage than FreeFont,
-          but are better hinted.  Be sure to read the license before using
-          them. These fonts are listed in the aliases in the
-          <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename> directory
-          by default.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/blfs/conglomeration/Xorg//fireflysung-1.3.0.tar.gz">Firefly New Sung font</ulink>
-          - This font ('AR PL New Sung') provides Chinese coverage and is
-          listed in the aliases in the
-          the <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename>
-          directory by default.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-arphic-ukai">UKai fonts</ulink>
-          and <ulink
-          url="http://packages.debian.org/sid/fonts-arphic-uming">UMing fonts</ulink>
-          - Newer sets (ttc) of Chinese fonts similarto the Firefly New Sung font,
-          containing variations of Simplified and Traditional. The Ming style is
-          similar to Sung (or Song), Kai is a slightly different style but still
-          looks to people used to the latin alphabets like a Serif font.
-          </para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://sourceforge.jp/projects/efont/">Kochi fonts</ulink> -
-          These provide Japanese characters, and are listed in the aliases
-          in the <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename>
-          directory by default.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="http://kldp.net/projects/baekmuk/">Baekmuk fonts</ulink>
-          - These fonts provide Korean coverage, and some are listed
-          <!-- Batang, Dotum in 40-nonlatin, 65-nonlatin adds Gulim -->
-          in the aliases in the
-          <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename> directory
-          by default.</para>
-        </listitem>
-        <listitem>
-          <para><ulink
-          url="&gnome-download-http;/cantarell-fonts/0.0/">Cantarell fonts</ulink>
-          - The Cantarell typeface family provides a contemporary Humanist sans
-          serif. It is particularly optimised for legibility at small sizes and is
-          the preferred font family for the <application>GNOME-3</application> user
-          interface.</para>
-        </listitem>
-      </itemizedlist>
-      <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> page.</para>
-      <para>As a font installation example, consider the installation of the
-      DejaVu fonts. In this particular package, the TTF files are in a
-      subdirectory. From the unpacked source directory, run the following
-      commands as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
-<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu &amp;&amp;
-install -v -m644 ttf/*.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>
   <sect2 role="configuration" id='xconfig'>
     <title>Setting up Xorg Devices</title>

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