From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 23:41:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imgq9tcz.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ3A7ko+8jUO4N4suGc56LhbUpgkX0je60OiMeWks5o1JA@mail.gmail.com>
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zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:
>> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes why?
>>
>> The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that
>> applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer recognizes bitmap fonts.
>>
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
>
> Thank you for the pointer but I think it is another issue.
>
>
>> > I mean, on my machine -- Guix on the top of Debian with font-dejavu
>> > installed -- why does commit 4bdf4182fe (core-update merge) not
>> > display correctly and the parent commit c81457a588 too but the other
>> > parent commit 23a59b180b displays nicely?
>>
>> Leo reported problems with fonts on Debian in
>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41132>, but said that fonts installed
>> with Guix still worked. I don't know what could cause it to fail on
>> your system.
>
> Thank for the pointer, it seems the same issue. But I am not sure
> because I am using the font from Guix.
>
> Well, I have font-dejavu-2.37 and fontconfig-2.13.1 installed in
> ~/.guix-profile from Guix e98689f.
>
>
> When I run
>
> guix pull --commit=4bdf4182fe -p /tmp/bad
>
> then
>
> display /tmp/bad/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> there is an issue. Note that 'imagemagick' is installed in
> ~/.guix-profile using the same commit above.
>
>
> The commit 4bdf4182fe is the commit of merge. If I pull from the
> (left) parent commit, i.e., the commit c81457a588,
>
> guix pull --commit=c81457a588 -p /tmp/left
>
> then
>
> display /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> displays nicely and the font is correct. However, if I pull form the
> (right) parent commit, i.e., the commit 23a59b180b,
>
> guix pull --commit=23a59b180b -p /tmp/right
>
> then
>
> display /tmp/right/share/info/images/bootstrap-graph.png
>
> displays wrongly. Well, I have changed nothing, considering the
> fonts. And the only difference is commit from "master" vs from
> "core-updates". And as I explained [1], it always happens when
> core-updates is merged.
Missing fonts in the manual is another known issue and was not clear
from your initial message: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41418>.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 21:42 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
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 [this message]
2020-05-20 23:35 ` zimoun
2020-05-21 12:46 ` Marius Bakke
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