Handbook (X window system section)

David Rio Deiros drio at ics.uci.edu
Tue Aug 10 23:26:43 UTC 2004


> 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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