Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-21 Thread Marius Bakke
he manual" > because I have the fonts installed; especially font-dejavu (and > gs-fonts too). The missing fonts were in images (PNG files) embedded in the manual, so it does not matter what you have installed: they are not rendered when you open the .png, unlike e.g. SVG or a rich text document. &

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread zimoun
1418; I have never commented on. I do not understand why you are saying "missing font in the manual" because I have the fonts installed; especially font-dejavu (and gs-fonts too). Well, I do not understand neither how c81457a588 can work nicely and not 23a59b180b with the exact same setu

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:28:13PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I > think gs-fonts still work there. > > Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't > recognize them though. > >

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread Marius Bakke
lable such as 'guix pack's. >> >> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another >> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format. >> >> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread Marius Bakke
zimoun writes: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke wrote: >> zimoun 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 r

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke wrote: > zimoun 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. > > h

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread Marius Bakke
zimoun 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 > I mean, on my

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread zimoun
make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts > specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where > the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's. > > I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another >

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-20 Thread Marius Bakke
lable such as 'guix pack's. >> >> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another >> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format. >> >> Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-19 Thread Leo Famulari
gt; > I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another > approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format. > > Thoughts? I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback. I think you should push right away, assuming tha

[PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

2020-05-17 Thread Marius Bakke
working when users don't have fonts specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's. I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here. Another approach could be to convert gs-font

Re: Gs

2016-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
is looks like too much work to implement for each package separately. > And as a permanent solution, I do not like it. > >> Alternately, we could provide a wrapper containing a ‘gs’ symlink. > > This would be one option. Or we could add another package, corresponding > to the p

Re: Gs

2016-07-23 Thread Efraim Flashner
> > gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary. > > > > * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript)[arguments]: Remove > > 'build-so' and 'install-so' phases. Replace 'build' and 'install

Re: Gs

2016-07-23 Thread Andreas Enge
h package separately. And as a permanent solution, I do not like it. > Alternately, we could provide a wrapper containing a ‘gs’ symlink. This would be one option. Or we could add another package, corresponding to the previous definition, that we would use only as an input to the packages in core-

Gs

2016-07-23 Thread Federico Beffa
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > the following commit > commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad > Author: Ludovic Courtès > Date: Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200 > > gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary. >

Re: Gs

2016-07-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andreas Enge skribis: > the following commit > commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad > Author: Ludovic Courtès > Date: Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200 > > gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary. > >

Re: Gs

2016-07-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > the following commit > commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad > Author: Ludovic Courtès > Date: Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200 > > gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary. >

Gs

2016-07-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, the following commit commit eb354bdacbf4154ec66038dac07f19bf4ced1fad Author: Ludovic Courtès Date: Mon May 9 15:54:34 2016 +0200 gnu: ghostscript: Do not build the statically-linked 'gs' binary. * gnu/packages/ghostscript.scm (ghostscript)[arguments]: Remove

Re: [PATCH] Hardcode “gs” path in Lilypond.

2015-10-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > the attached patch changes the result of ‘(search-gs)’ in the Lilypond > backend, such that it returns the “gs” executable from the very same > version of ghostscript that Lilypond was built with. > > Retaining a reference to ghostscript causes a closur

[PATCH] Hardcode “gs” path in Lilypond.

2015-10-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, the attached patch changes the result of ‘(search-gs)’ in the Lilypond backend, such that it returns the “gs” executable from the very same version of ghostscript that Lilypond was built with. Retaining a reference to ghostscript causes a closure increase from 309.9 to 351.2. “gs” is