Changeset f101c437 for x/installing

Timestamp:

11/29/2023 02:47:16 AM (5 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

e352fea

Parents:

690b50d

Message:

tuningfonts -

Move link to my 'substitutes' examples to tuning-fontconfig
from TTF-and-OTF-fonts.

Location:

x/installing

Files:

• TTF-and-OTF-fonts.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• tuning-fontconfig.xml (modified) (1 diff)

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

@@ -187 +187 @@
 
     <para>
+      The list below 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 the
+      full set of <xref linkend="noto-fonts"/> (there are separate fonts for
+      different writing systems). We used to recommend the <ulink
+      url="https://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 these fonts, and many others, with
-      details of what languages they cover, some examples of Latin fonts with
-      the same metrics and various files
-      of dummy text to compare fonts of similar types, can be found at the
-      <ulink url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html#substitutes/"></ulink>
-      page of a <ulink url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html">font-comparison</ulink>
-      website which also covers other writing systems.
+      details of what languages they cover, can be found at a
+      <ulink url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html">font-comparison</ulink>
+      website.
     </para>
 

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -321 +321 @@
       both weak and strong aliases so that aliases for one form such as
       Helvetica or Times New Roman can be stisfied by the other style, i.e.
-      anything which is an alias of Arial or Times in those examples.
+      anything which is an alias of Arial or Times in those examples. some
+      examples of Latin fonts with the same metrics can be found under the
+      'Substitute latin fonts' link in the TTF and OTF part of <ulink
+      url="http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html#substitutes/">zarniwhoop.uk</ulink>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
       After that, an unknown font will be searched for in
       <filename>45-latin.conf</filename>: