Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] docs: pdfdocs: Improve alignment of CJK ascii-art

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:11:13 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 25 Jun 2021 20:32:47 +0900
> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> escreveu:
> 
>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:24:23 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Em Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:22:26 +0900
>>> Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>   
>>>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:50:59 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:  
>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> One minor problem might be that the Sarasa font needs manual
>>>> download (and install).
>>>>
>>>>         Thanks, Akira  
>>>
>>> If this is not yet packaged as part of texlive packages
>>> on distros, this won't be a minor issue, as we'll need
>>> to find procedures and test it for all distros supported
>>> by the script.  
>>
>> Existence of "Sarasa Mono SC" can be checked by the command:
>>
>>     fc-list | grep "Sarasa Mono SC," | grep "style=Regular" | wc -l
>>
>> If the result is *not* "0", you have the font somewhere in your
>> fontconfig path.
>>
>> I think this is portable across distros.
>> Wouldn't this suffice for sphinx-pre-install?
> 
> No. The sphinx-pre-install tool generate a list of commands
> needed to install the pre-reqs on a given distro.
> 
> For instance, if you run on opensuse without texlive, it would
> print:
> 
> 
> 	# ./scripts/sphinx-pre-install 
> 	Detected OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210515.
> 	Sphinx version: 3.5.4
> 
> 	Warning: better to also install "latexmk".
> ...
> 	Warning: better to also install "xelatex".
> 	You should run:
> 
> 	sudo zypper install --no-recommends texlive-latexmk-bin texlive-amscls texlive-amsfonts texlive-amsmath texlive-anyfontsize texlive-babel-english texlive-capt-of texlive-caption texlive-cmap texlive-colortbl texlive-courier texlive-dvips texlive-ec texlive-eqparbox texlive-euenc texlive-fancybox texlive-fancyvrb texlive-float texlive-fncychap texlive-framed texlive-helvetic texlive-luatex85 texlive-makeindex texlive-mdwtools texlive-metafont texlive-metapost texlive-multirow texlive-needspace texlive-oberdiek texlive-palatino texlive-parskip texlive-polyglossia texlive-preview texlive-psnfss texlive-tabulary texlive-threeparttable texlive-times texlive-titlesec texlive-tools texlive-ucs texlive-upquote texlive-wrapfig texlive-zapfchan texlive-zapfding texlive-xetex-bin
> 
> The same command, when executed on a different distro will
> print a different set of packages and commands.

I see...

So let's forget Unifont and "Sarasa Mono" for the time being.

By adding some custom configuration of fontconfig, "Noto Sans Mono
CJK SC" can be made an alias of "Sarasa Mono", "Unifont", or whatever
alternative font one wants to try.

An alternative *true* monospace font is just a nice-to-have for
those who concern PDF of Korean translation, and as I have said
earlier, it has another major issue of white spaces being ignored
by xeCJK.

I'll do a v2 along this line.

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro
>