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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 0d6739adc3..dd2004dd63 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013, 2014, 2016 Andreas Enge@* Copyright @copyright{} 2013 Nikita Karetnikov@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* @@ -1208,6 +1209,24 @@ for Chinese languages: guix package -i font-adobe-source-han-sans:cn @end example +Older programs such as @command{xterm} do not use Fontconfig and instead +rely on server-side font rendering. Such programs require to specify a +full name of a font using XLFD (X Logical Font Description), like this: + +@example +-*-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-1 +@end example + +To be able to use such full names for the TrueType fonts installed in +your Guix profile, you need to extend the font path of the X server: + +@example +xset +fp ~/.guix-profile/share/fonts/truetype +@end example + +After that, you can run @code{xlsfonts} (from @code{xlsfonts} package) +to make sure your TrueType fonts are listed there. + @subsection X.509 Certificates The @code{nss-certs} package provides X.509 certificates, which allow @@ -4517,8 +4536,9 @@ You can freely access a huge library of build logs! @cindex package definition, editing So many packages, so many source files! The @command{guix edit} command -facilitates the life of packagers by pointing their editor at the source -file containing the definition of the specified packages. For instance: +facilitates the life of users and packagers by pointing their editor at +the source file containing the definition of the specified packages. +For instance: @example guix edit gcc@@4.9 vim @@ -4526,9 +4546,15 @@ guix edit gcc@@4.9 vim @noindent launches the program specified in the @code{VISUAL} or in the -@code{EDITOR} environment variable to edit the recipe of GCC@tie{}4.9.3 +@code{EDITOR} environment variable to view the recipe of GCC@tie{}4.9.3 and that of Vim. +If you are using a Guix Git checkout (@pxref{Building from Git}), or +have created your own packages on @code{GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH} +(@pxref{Defining Packages}), you will be able to edit the package +recipes. Otherwise, you will be able to examine the read-only recipes +for packages currently in the store. + If you are using Emacs, note that the Emacs user interface provides the @kbd{M-x guix-edit} command and a similar functionality in the ``package info'' and ``package list'' buffers created by the @kbd{M-x |