Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:27:29 -0700 From: David Rio Deiros <drio@ics.uci.edu> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook (X window system section) Message-ID: <20040810232729.GA22994@ics.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <40B7F22F.2020308@pacific.net.sg> References: <20040528001302.GA1293@ics.uci.edu> <20040528161638.GA2269@ics.uci.edu> <40B7F22F.2020308@pacific.net.sg>
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> David Rio Deiros wrote:
> >>I don't know if I made some mistake following the rules in the handbook
> >>but if not I think it would be good to add my experiences in the
> >>handbook(The X Window System - Using Fonts in XFree86 section).
ligero:/usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11 $ diff -u
chapter.sgml chapter.sgml.new
--- chapter.sgml Tue Jul 27 04:47:48 2004
+++ chapter.sgml.new Tue Aug 10 15:40:35 2004
@@ -644,8 +644,30 @@
<filename>XftConfig</filename> file: see the
section on <link linkend="antialias">anti-aliasing</link>.
</para>
+</sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="urlfonts">
+ <title>Web Fonts</title>
+ <para>
+ Webfonts (<filename role="package">x11-fonts/webfonts</filename>)
+ will allow your browser to render webpages using the right
+ fonts. To do that, run the following commands:
+ </para>
+
+ <screen>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>cd
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts</userinput>
+ &prompt.root; <userinput>make install clean</userinput>
+ </screen>
+
+ <para>
+ Finally, tell the X server that there are new fonts to load:
+ </para>
+
+ <programlisting>FontPath
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/"</programlisting>
</sect2>
+
+
<sect2 id="truetype">
<title>&truetype; Fonts</title>
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