[gnome-user-docs] Finish sysadmin fonts page
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] Finish sysadmin fonts page
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 21:31:03 +0000 (UTC)
commit 931962080a7b4466bf1140ddee59e3fc8d096ed3
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Sun Aug 11 22:27:39 2013 +0100
Finish sysadmin fonts page
Add a note about why /usr/local/share/fonts needs to be used instead of
/usr/share/fonts. Explain which applications this will affect. Refine
instructions. Explain the consequences. Submit for review.
system-admin-guide/C/fonts.page | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/system-admin-guide/C/fonts.page b/system-admin-guide/C/fonts.page
index af4062a..cae39ea 100644
--- a/system-admin-guide/C/fonts.page
+++ b/system-admin-guide/C/fonts.page
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="fonts">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#appearance" />
- <revision version="0.1" date="2012-05-21" status="draft"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-08-11" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Matthias Clasen</name>
@@ -16,23 +17,38 @@
<email>jana svarova gmail com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
+ <credit type="author copyright">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
- <desc>Make extra fonts available to users</desc>
+ <desc>Add extra fonts for all users</desc>
</info>
-<title>Adding fonts</title>
+ <title>Add an extra font</title>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2013-08-11">Kat</cite>
+ <p>See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY :
+ /usr/local/share/fonts is the correct place for fonts to go into.</p>
+ </comment>
+
+ <p>You can install a new font which will be available to users through
+ applications that use <sys>fontconfig</sys> for font handling.</p>
-<steps>
-<title>To make extra fonts available to users:</title>
- <item><p>Install the font files into the
- <file>/usr/share/fonts</file> subdirectory.</p></item>
- <item>
- <p>Update the font cache by running the following command as root:</p>
- <screen>fc-cache</screen>
- </item>
-</steps>
+ <steps>
+ <title>Install a font</title>
+ <item>
+ <p>Copy the font to <file>/usr/local/share/fonts/</file> to install
+ it.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>You may need to run <cmd>fc-cache</cmd> to update the font cache.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
-<p>The new fonts will be available as soon as you update the font cache.
-User sessions do not have to be restarted to see the changes.</p>
+ <p>Running applications must be restarted to see the changes, while user
+ sessions do not need to be restarted.</p>
</page>
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