[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Michael Raskin]

>On 06/10/2014 02:29 AM, Daniel Bergey wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>
>Ah, I wasn't sure whether I should be adding things to fonts.fonts,
>clearly I am. I should have a go and getting some extra fonts and
>putting them there to see if that works. Thank you for putting up the
>wiki page.
>
>
>If you guys have some knowledge that's not searchable on the web at the
>moment then please do make wiki pages! It's frustrating to get stuck on
>something and then asking on IRC for hours, waiting for mailing list
>replies, source diving, …, knowing that *someone* already knows!

Well, not all knowledge is easily transferrable… Maybe the good habit to
start would be blindly pasting to the wiki whatever conversation was
deemed helpful by the asking person (because arguably the description in
it is already somewhat useful and it can be edited later).