On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 02:48:49AM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Yesterday, I installed the UMing fonts from freedesktop.org - I
> can't see any reason to recommend them, and as someone who isn't
> sensitive to the differences in certain CJK variants I can't even
> _see_ a difference in the variants
Ken Moffat wrote:
> So, I _guess_ that .conf files are sometimes important. For DejaVu
> with recent fontconfig, that doesn't seem to be the case.
I took a look at some of the .conf files. The contents tell us what
they do. For example:
DejaVu Sans
7.5
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:07:27PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote these words on 02/06/13 20:52 CST:
> > Do the files from the tarball match what is already installed by
> > fontconfig, or are they different/additional ?
>
> The .conf files in the DejaVu tarball are different tha
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 02/06/13 20:52 CST:
> Do the files from the tarball match what is already installed by
> fontconfig, or are they different/additional ?
The .conf files in the DejaVu tarball are different than any shipped by
Fontconfig. In fact, the README (or whatever it is I read
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:20:41PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/06/13 20:00 CST:
> > Randy McMurchy wrote:
> >> However, the reason I'm asking is that there are .conf files shipped in the
> >> tarball that are designed to be installed in /etc/fonts/conf.d, yet
On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:00:16PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In the DejaVu Fonts installation instructions shown on the Xorg
> > configuration
> > page, the instructions seem to need an update. First, the fonts are now in a
> > subdirectory of the source
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/06/13 20:00 CST:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>> However, the reason I'm asking is that there are .conf files shipped in the
>> tarball that are designed to be installed in /etc/fonts/conf.d, yet there is
>> no instruction to install them. Are they required, or do the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the DejaVu Fonts installation instructions shown on the Xorg configuration
> page, the instructions seem to need an update. First, the fonts are now in a
> subdirectory of the source directory, so the installation of the TTF files
> do not work as shown in the
Hi all,
In the DejaVu Fonts installation instructions shown on the Xorg configuration
page, the instructions seem to need an update. First, the fonts are now in a
subdirectory of the source directory, so the installation of the TTF files
do not work as shown in the book.
However, the reason I'm a
