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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Subject: Re: Suggest add font: font-wqy-microhei
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:51:51 +0100
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Hi,

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 09:50:02 +0800 (CST)
tumashu <tumashu@163.com> wrote:

> wqy-microhei is a very useful chinese fonts, suggest add it to guix.
> 
> 1. http://wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi?MicroHei_BigBang_README
> 2. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wqy/wqy-microhei/0.2.0-beta/wqy-microhei-0.2.0-beta.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwenq.org%2Fwqy2%2Findex.cgi%3FDownload&ts=1484272152&use_mirror=nchc

We already have font-wqy-zenhai which is very similar in setup. If you want, check out gnu/packages/fonts.scm and just copy the font-wqy-zenhei block and modify the url, name and checksum in the copy.

Also, is there a reason wqy-microhei is marked "beta"? Is it not finished? What's the difference between wqy-microhei and wqy-zenhei?

If you want to quickly build and use your own packages, the easiest is:

$ mkdir -p ${HOME}/.local/guix/wip
$ export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=${HOME}/.local/guix

Then put your own Scheme files in there, containing package definitions. They need to be valid Scheme modules. For example the (new) file ${HOME}/.local/guix/wip/fonts.scm should have the following header:

(define-module (wip fonts)
  #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
  #:use-module (guix utils)
  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
  #:use-module (guix packages)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
  #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
  #:use-module (gnu packages base)
  #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
  #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
  #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
  #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
  #:use-module (gnu packages python)
  #:use-module (gnu packages xorg)
  #:use-module (gnu packages zip))

And then the package definitions should follow, in this manner:

(define-public font-wqy-microhei
  (package
    (name "font-wqy-microhei")
    ...))

Replace "..." by what you copied from font-wqy-zenhai.