[Tools-discuss] Re: New xml2rfc release: v3.22.0

[Kesara Rathnayake <[e-mail]>]

Hi Martin,

Improving the ability to install required fonts using pip extras is an
aspirational goal.
WeasyPrint relies on Pango and Pango requires fonts to be installed at
the OS level.

Cheers,
Kesara

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 13:35, Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi Kesara,
>
> I'm sure this was considered, but my expectation would be that this is a dependency of xml2rfc (i.e., installed with pip) rather than a manual step.  Was that not possible?  My browser downloads fonts from the web, so it must be possible to acquire fonts from sources other than the OS font store.
>
> I'm looking at this from the perspective of having to bootstrap a docker image with the necessary font information and it is non-trivial to do that in a relatively spare OS installation.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2024, at 06:13, Kesara Rathnayake wrote:
> > ¡Hola!
> >
> > See https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/releases/tag/v3.22.0 for
> > release details.
> >
> > Notable updates:
> > The necessary fonts for PDF generation can now be found in the
> > xml2rfc-fonts repository [1].
> >
> > Font Installation Instructions:
> >  * Download the latest fonts [2] from xml2rfc-fonts.
> >  * In the "Assets" section, download either the tar.gz or the zip archive.
> >  * Extract the contents of the downloaded xml2rfc-fonts archive.
> >  * Install the fonts found in the `noto` and `roboto_mono` directories
> > to your operating system.
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc-fonts/
> > [2] https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc-fonts/releases/latest
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kesara
> >
> > --
> > Kesara Rathnayake
> > Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF Administration LLC
> > [e-mail]
> >
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Kesara Rathnayake
Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF Administration LLC
[e-mail]