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Re: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-Engli
From: |
Alex Vong |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] doc: Ask user to install extra packages to display non-English alphabets. |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:46:55 +0800 |
Hi,
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 3b6955c..61e3445 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -1000,6 +1000,17 @@ to display fonts, you will have to install fonts with
> Guix as well.
> Essential font packages include @code{gs-fonts}, @code{font-dejavu}, and
> @code{font-gnu-freefont-ttf}.
>
> +To display text written in Chinese languages, Japanese, or Korean in
> +graphical applications, consider installing
> address@hidden or @code{font-wqy-zenhei}. The former
Perhaps we could change `or` to `and/or`, since some packages only
work with one font but not another, e.g. Icecat.
> +has multiple outputs, one per language family (@pxref{Packages with
> +Multiple Outputs}). For instance, the following command installs fonts
> +for Chinese languages:
There are two sets of Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese and
Traditional Chinese. cn is Simplified Chinese used in Mainland and tw
is Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan/HK/Macau. So I think `Chinese
Language` should be changed to `Simplified Chinese`, what is your
idea?
> +
> address@hidden
> +guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn
> address@hidden example
> +
> @c TODO What else?
>
Otherwise, this looks great to me as well.
Cheers,
Alex