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Docs: Clarify that Latin variants shouldn't be installed

Open moble opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

As I found out in #208, the files JuliaMono-RegularLatin and JuliaMono-BoldLatin are (the only?) two files that should not be installed, or they can screw things up. Currently the docs say that "You don't want to use these", but not in a very prominent spot, and that's still pretty ambiguous. I fully admit that I'm very naive when it comes to the black magic involved in how apps find glyphs, but I suspect that most users will be just as naive.

I think it would be better to specifically explain that these can / should be excluded when installing the fonts. One good place to explain this would probably be in the "Installation" section of the "Download" page. Currently, the relevant instructions say to "drag the font files" — which I interpreted as implying all the font files. Maybe it would be helpful to have a sentence or two right at the beginning of that section explaining that "the files" should normally be taken to mean everything but the Latin ones.

moble avatar Sep 18 '24 22:09 moble

I’m investigating … -~~https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/discussions/3025~~

https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl/issues/3029

cormullion avatar Sep 22 '24 08:09 cormullion

This appears to be closed by v0.058.

Thanks so much for all your work. I really love this font!

moble avatar Oct 20 '24 17:10 moble

Thanks! Hopefully the problem will slowly fade over time - although people don't always upgrade their current fonts as often as their other software 🤷‍♂️

cormullion avatar Oct 20 '24 18:10 cormullion