[Nix-dev] Fonts

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 06/10/2014 07:03 AM, Michael Raskin wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> 
> 


Even IRC log dumps + config file snippets (with few comments) are *much*
better than nothing at all.

-- 
Mateusz K.