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Re: Suggest installing more fonts?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts?
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:13:15 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:53:17 +0200
> 
> > Sorry, I thought you meant intlfonts, not efaq.  So now could you
> > elaborate on what kind of reference did you have in mind and to what
> > information?
> 
> Something like
> 
> See the Emacs Frequently Asked Questions manual "(efaq) How to add
> fonts" for installation instructions.

OK, except "manual" is wrong here.  The FAQ is not a manual.

> >> No reason. I just wanted to show how to install such fonts for major
> >> GNU/Linux distros, using apt or dnf. And maybe also for other target 
> >> systems.
> >
> > We could also use a neutral name like "apt get FONT ...", couldn't we?
> 
> Hmm. The problem is, that the majority of users doesn't know what to
> replace FONT with.

But then the instructions you show cannot be applied if the name of
the font changes?



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