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Re: Package Installation Queries


From: Niall Dooley
Subject: Re: Package Installation Queries
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 17:22:01 +0100

On 10 February 2017 at 09:55, Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Niall Dooley (2017-02-09 22:36 +0100) wrote:
>
> > On 8 February 2017 at 21:51, Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> >> > (3) Before installing Guix I used SCP as my font for Emacs. However,
> >> > following the installation of SCP via Guix some unicode glyphs are
> >> > not rendered correctly as they were before. Note, I did a fresh
> >> > install of my foreign distro before installing Guix and did not
> >> > re-install SCP on it. Is there further steps I need to perform to
> >> > have these unicode glyphs rendered correctly?
> >>
> >> What unicode symbols are not displayed correctly for you?  If I
> >> understood correctly, SCP is a font and you installed it with Guix,
> >> right?  What name does this (SCP) package have in Guix?
> >
> > Yes, sorry SCP := Source Code Pro, and yes I've installed it via Guix using
> > Guix package name font-adobe-source-code-pro. Examples of unicode
> > characters which were displaying correctly before but not now include:
> > U+232B, U+2326, U+23CE. Reading about this subject some more
> > these characters may not in fact be available in SCP but were rather 
> > supplied
> > by another available font.
>
> Yeah, I think these chars are not supported by this font.  Emacs
> displays U+232B and U+2326 with "Symbola" font for me, and U+23CE is
> unrecognized (Symbola and any other font I have do not support it).
>
> BTW Symbola package can't be a part of Guix due to a really stupid
> license problem.  If you are interested, I have a Guix package for this
> font here:
>
>   https://github.com/alezost/guix-config/blob/master/packages/fonts.scm
>

That would be great, can you explain how I can make use of your package?



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