bug#36014: [PATCH] Attempt to use console-fonts not provided by kbd if they are installed

[John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>]

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Hi Ludo,

I am not familiar with the info and html documentation build process. Will
this patch suffice?

Thank you,

John

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From 681d6e2f81b4cf46501c2312edcef4c98284675b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:45:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Update console-font-service docstring.

* gnu/services/base (console-font-service-type):
  Add documentation about valid arguments.
---
 gnu/services/base.scm | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 537d30add5..363cb20c06 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
 ;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -801,10 +802,14 @@ to add @var{device} to the kernel's entropy pool.  The service will fail if
                 (description
                  "Install the given fonts on the specified ttys (fonts are per
 virtual console on GNU/Linux).  The value of this service is a list of
-tty/font pairs like:
+tty/font pairs. The font can be the name of a font provided by the kbd package
+or any valid argument to setfont. For example:
 
 @example
-'((\"tty1\" . \"LatGrkCyr-8x16\"))
+'((\"tty1\" . \"LatGrkCyr-8x16\")
+  (\"tty2\" . (file-append
+                font-tamzen
+                \"/share/kbd/consolefonts/TamzenForPowerline10x20.psf\")))
 @end example\n")))
 
 (define* (console-font-service tty #:optional (font "LatGrkCyr-8x16"))
-- 
2.22.0