At 2017-01-13 17:51:51, "Danny Milosavljevic" <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>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.