Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Mozilla Fira Mono font.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> From e0c9fea99b69e252d99a4ecd3cb781135faaf79c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roel Janssen <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:37:13 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add Mozilla Fira Mono font.
>
> * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (font-fira): New variable.

[...]

> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri 
> "https://github.com/mozilla/Fira/raw/master/otf/FiraMono-Regular.otf";)

Would be nice to see if this can be built from source.

> Here is a patch for adding Mozilla's Fira monospaced font. I do have a
> problem with it: Emacs doesn't recognize the font.
> 
> I would really like to know how I can fix this.

It has to be installed in ~/.guix-profile because that’s where Guix’s
Fontconfig looks for font (I assume you’re talking about a
Guix-installed Emacs.)

Maybe you need to run ‘fc-cache -vfr’ (from Fontconfig) to update the
font cache?

> And how could I download other variants of the font in the same package?

The best would be to build them from source, if possible.  Otherwise
there can be several origins listed in ‘native-inputs’.

Thanks!

Ludo’.