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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c0b9668760..b5aefc0aa3 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4745,6 +4745,7 @@ needed is to review and apply the patch. * Version Numbers:: When the name is not enough. * Python Modules:: Taming the snake. * Perl Modules:: Little pearls. +* Fonts:: Fond of fonts. @end menu @node Software Freedom @@ -4796,6 +4797,8 @@ already part of the official project name. But @pxref{Python Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning modules for the Python and Perl languages. +Font package names are handled differently, @pxref {Fonts}. + @node Version Numbers @subsection Version Numbers @@ -4871,6 +4874,43 @@ are also prepended by @code{perl-}. Such modules tend to have the word prefix. For instance, @code{libwww-perl} becomes @code{perl-libwww}. +@node Fonts +@subsection Fonts + +For fonts that are in general not installed by a user for typesetting +purposes, or that are distributed as part of a larger software package, +we rely on the general packaging rules for software; for instance, this +applies to the fonts delivered as part of the X.Org system or fonts that +are part of TeX Live. + +To make it easier for a user to search for fonts, names for other packages +containing only fonts are constructed as follows, independently of the +upstream package name. + +The name of a package containing only one font family starts with +@code{font-}; it is followed by the foundry name and a dash @code{-} +if the foundry is known, and the font family name, in which spaces are +replaced by dashes (and as usual, all upper case letters are transformed +to lower case). +For example, the Gentium font family by SIL is packaged under the name +@code{font-sil-gentium}. + +For a package containing several font families, the name of the collection +is used in the place of the font family name. +For instance, the Liberation fonts consist of three families, +Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono. +These could be packaged separately under the names +@code{font-liberation-sans} and so on; but as they are distributed together +under a common name, we prefer to package them together as +@code{font-liberation}. + +In the case where several formats of the same font family or font collection +are packaged separately, a short form of the format, prepended by a dash, +is added to the package name. We use @code{-ttf} for TrueType fonts, +@code {-otf} for OpenType fonts and @code{-type1} for PostScript Type 1 +fonts. + + @node Bootstrapping @section Bootstrapping |