On 06/10/2014 07:03 AM, Michael Raskin wrote: >> On 06/10/2014 02:29 AM, Daniel Bergey wrote: >>> A few weeks back I struggled with fonts, asked some questions on IRC, >>> and wrote up what I learned on the wiki: >>> >>> https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts >>> >>> I should add some notes on packaging fonts there, too. >>> >>> I have no idea why Cantata and chromium aren't picking up fonts, though; >>> I don't use either one. >>> >>> cheers, >>> bergey >>> >> >> Ah, I wasn't sure whether I should be adding things to fonts.fonts, >> clearly I am. I should have a go and getting some extra fonts and >> putting them there to see if that works. Thank you for putting up the >> wiki page. >> >> >> If you guys have some knowledge that's not searchable on the web at the >> moment then please do make wiki pages! It's frustrating to get stuck on >> something and then asking on IRC for hours, waiting for mailing list >> replies, source diving, …, knowing that *someone* already knows! > > Well, not all knowledge is easily transferrable… Maybe the good habit to > start would be blindly pasting to the wiki whatever conversation was > deemed helpful by the asking person (because arguably the description in > it is already somewhat useful and it can be edited later). > > >
Even IRC log dumps + config file snippets (with few comments) are *much* better than nothing at all. -- Mateusz K. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev