GNU bug report logs - #41282
doc: dot graphs display square glyphs instead of letters

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41282: closed (doc: dot graphs display square glyphs instead
 of letters)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 22:02:03 +0000

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Your message dated Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:39 +0200
with message-id <87eere9shk.fsf <at> devup.no>
and subject line Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #41282,
regarding doc: dot graphs display square glyphs instead of letters
to be marked as done.

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From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: doc: dot graphs display square glyphs instead of letters
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:23:33 +0200

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See for instance "12.1 The Reduced Binary Seed Bootstrap".
Commit 7bba5425473b5d193946e537de77c631ae6c3667.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead
 of gs-fonts.
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:39 +0200

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Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts
>> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where
>> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix pack's.
>> 
>> I'm not sure whether font-dejavu is a good replacement here.  Another
>> approach could be to convert gs-fonts to TrueType or OpenType format.
>> 
>> Thoughts?  I don't know much about fonts and would appreciate feedback.
>
> I think you should push right away, assuming that it helps and doesn't
> rebuild the world.

I pushed the patch as ab9de8cfb0525ef43668712ac898707f97f9a620.

I verified that it fixes the immediate problem with fonts in the Guix
manual (#41282) as well as 'guix pack' (#41344).  It should also provide
a decent fallback for cases where the user did not explicitly install
any fonts such as in #41241.

Hoping for angry reports now about why such a poor replacement font was
chosen.  ;-)

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