[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Daniel Bergey]

A few weeks back I struggled with fonts, asked some questions on IRC,
and wrote up what I learned on the wiki:

https://nixos.org/wiki/Fonts

I should add some notes on packaging fonts there, too.

I have no idea why Cantata and chromium aren't picking up fonts, though;
I don't use either one.

cheers,
bergey

On 2014-06-09 at 06:30, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In some applications (Cantata, chromium) I get squares instead of
> Japanese characters. In others (emacs, urxvt, firefox, uzbl (ugly)) I
> get actual characters.
>
> Does anyone know what I need to do to get Japanese to show up? In other
> distros I would normally install every font available ever, run
> fontconfig and hope for the best.
>
> Similarly, I was watching something with subtitles the other day and mpv
> was struggling to find some fonts even though I seemed to have them in
> ~/nix-profile/share/fonts/truetype . It might have needed some special
> variety however so don't hold me on this one.
>
> What's the procedure of installing fonts? In my configuration.nix I have
>
>   fonts.enableCoreFonts = true;
>   fonts.enableFontConfig = true;
>   fonts.enableFontDir = true;
>   fonts.enableGhostscriptFonts = true;
>
> I seem to get squares whether I have all of the above or none at all.
>
> I also was installing separate packages for fonts previously but it did
> not seem to matter.
>
> I tried to find some info online on this but I was only ever able to
> come across discussion whether unfree fonts should be included and
> nothing else.