error in handbook?

Hideyuki KURASHINA rushani at bl.mmtr.or.jp
Tue Nov 2 18:22:43 UTC 2004


Hi,

Thanks for pointing out this issue,

>>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:29:16 +0400 (MSD), "." <alarum at fromru.com> said:

> It seems that there is no port mentioned in
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html
> --->
> \"18.3.6 X11 Setup
[...]
> 18.3.6.1 Displaying Fonts
> 
> Install the X11 TrueType® Common server
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> (x11-servers/XttXF86srv-common) and install the
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> language TrueType fonts. Setting the correct locale
> should allow you to view your selected language in
> menus and such.\"

This part is out-of-date.  Above description is based on age
when we use X server from XFree86 3.X.  Result of The X-TrueType
project is already included XFree86 4.x and thus X.org, I think.

How about following patch?

-- rushani

Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.102
diff -u -r1.102 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml	22 Sep 2004 18:09:00 -0000	1.102
+++ chapter.sgml	2 Nov 2004 18:15:37 -0000
@@ -607,8 +607,11 @@
       <sect3>
 	<title>Displaying Fonts</title>
 	<indexterm><primary>X11 True Type font server</primary></indexterm>
-	<para>Install the X11 &truetype; Common server (<filename role="package">x11-servers/XttXF86srv-common</filename>) and
-	  install the language &truetype; fonts.  Setting the correct
+	<para>Install <application>&xorg;</application> server
+	  (<filename role="package">x11-servers/xorg-server</filename>)
+	  or <application>&xfree86;</application> server
+	  (<filename role="package">x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server</filename>),
+	  then install the language &truetype; fonts.  Setting the correct
 	  locale should allow you to view your selected language in menus
 	  and such.</para>
       </sect3>



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