Build instructions?

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Build instructions?

guihkx opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

I've been using your patched fonts for a long while on Arch Linux (and absolutely I love them, thanks). But a recent update of the freetype2 package, from version 2.9.1 to version 2.10.0, somehow "broke" your patched font. I've tried downgrading freetype2 back to 2.9.1, but Chromium completely breaks so unfortunately that's not an option... Anyway, here's a quick comparison:

Monaco Nerd Fonts (freetype2 2.9.1):

Monaco Nerd Fonts (freetype2 2.10.0):

As you can see from the screenshots above, the "line height" on version 2.10.0 seems substantially smaller when compared to version 2.9.1. So I was wondering if you could help me by telling me:

Where did you get your Monaco.{ttf,otf} font?
What options (arguments) did you use in font-patcher from nerd-fonts?

I just wanna see if building it myself using the latest freetype2 version will change anything.

Thanks a lot.

_kmz · Answer 1 · Sun Mar 17 2019 18:42:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi. I ran pacman -Syu one minite ago and it broke my font too, looked just like your second picture. And for now I have no idea how to fix it. Sorry.

Didn't remember where to get the original font. The options should simply be: -c (maybe with --careful). I never dig into how the patcher worked. Sorry for that again.

So if you found a solution, please let me know. Thank you very much.

_kmz · Answer 2 · Sun Mar 17 2019 18:48:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I searched monaco and got these repos:
https://github.com/todylu/monaco.ttf
https://github.com/cstrap/monaco-font
Hope it can help you.
I'll try to do the repatching at my leisure.

Guilherme Silva · Answer 3 · Sun Mar 17 2019 19:59:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the links.

Yesterday I tried patching some monaco fonts I found on Github. The first one you linked didn't work for me, fontforge threw a bunch of errors I didn't know how to fix / ignore. Then I came across this MonacoB font (more specifically, the MonacoBSemi variant).

Then I created a PKGBUILD for it, based on a copy of ttf-nerd-fonts-input, applied the patch and I think it looks almost exactly like before!

~~Here's the PKGBUILD (beware, it downloads the entire nerd-fonts repo, it's about 2 GB):~~
Here's the AUR package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-nerd-fonts-monacob-mono/

And here how it looks now on Konsole with freetype2 2.10.0:

Although it already looks great (for me), I think I will try with some other Monaco fonts (like the second one you linked) when I have some free time. Thanks

_kmz · Answer 4 · Mon Mar 18 2019 10:21:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Good job. Thank you.
I'll try your PKGBUILD later after getting home.
I read the patcher's script and found downloading https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/src/glyphs will be fairly enough according to this line:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/blob/master/font-patcher#L761

You can download the directory by:

# replace 'tree/master' with 'trunk'
svn checkout https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/trunk/src/glyphs

But I don't know how to write this into PKGBUILD.

Guilherme Silva · Answer 5 · Tue Mar 19 2019 03:31:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks a lot for the tips! I've created a new PKGBUILD and submitted to the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-nerd-fonts-monacob-mono/

I decided to go keep the MonacoB fonts, because every other one I tried didn't look as good. Let me know if it works for you.

You can also close this if you want.

_kmz · Answer 6 · Wed Mar 20 2019 10:13:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Glad to try it later. Too busy these days. 😫

Guilherme Silva · Answer 7 · Wed Mar 20 2019 11:09:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No problem, thanks for everything