Mercurial > octave
changeset 28393:0824d92a449d stable
Document fc-cache must be run after installing new fonts (bug #58432)
* genpropdoc.m (get_doc): In fontname property description, explain that users
on non-Linux systems must update the font cache manually after
installing new fonts on their system.
| author | Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo.diribarne@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 01 Jun 2020 23:37:34 +0200 |
| parents | 38ebf4885e0f |
| children | a379987a74b0 |
| files | doc/interpreter/genpropdoc.m |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/interpreter/genpropdoc.m Mon Jun 01 00:58:03 2020 +0200 +++ b/doc/interpreter/genpropdoc.m Mon Jun 01 23:37:34 2020 +0200 @@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ doc_fontname = "Name of font used for text rendering. When setting \ this property, the text rendering engine will search for a matching \ font in your system. If none is found then text is rendered using a \ -default sans serif font (same as the default @qcode{\"*\"} value)."; +default sans serif font (same as the default @qcode{\"*\"} value).\n\n\ +Programming Note: On systems that don’t use FontConfig natively \ +(all but Linux), the font cache is built when Octave is installed. \ +You will need to run @code{system (\"fc-cache -fv\")} manually after \ +installing new fonts."; doc_fontunits = "Units used to interpret the @qcode{\"fontsize\"} property."; doc_fontweight = "Control the variant of the base font used for \ text rendering.";