From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eere9shk.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200519155020.GD24701@jasmine.lan>
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Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
>> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
>> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
>>
>> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another
>> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.
>>
>> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback.
>
> I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't
> rebuild the world.
I pushed the patch as ab9de8cfb0525ef43668712ac898707f97f9a620.
I verified that it fixes the immediate problem with fonts in the Guix
manual (#41282) as well as 'guix pack' (#41344). It should also provide
a decent fallback for cases where the user did not explicitly install
any fonts such as in #41241.
Hoping for angry reports now about why such a poor replacement font was
chosen. ;-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-17 14:50 [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts Marius Bakke
2020-05-19 15:50 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-20 11:28 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 22:59 ` Leo Famulari
2020-05-20 22:00 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-05-20 12:06 ` zimoun
2020-05-20 13:55 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 21:03 ` zimoun
2020-05-20 21:41 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-20 23:35 ` zimoun
2020-05-21 12:46 ` Marius Bakke
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