Fedora and openSUSE has started deploying "variable font" [1] format Noto CJK fonts [2, 3]. "CJK" here stands for "Chinese, Japanese, and Korean". Unfortunately, XeTeX/XeLaTeX doesn't understand those fonts for historical reasons and builds of translations.pdf end up in errors if such fonts are present on the build host. To help developers work around the issue, add a script to check the presence of "variable font" Noto CJK fonts and to emit suggestions. The script is invoked in the error path of "make pdfdocs" so that the suggestions are made only when a PDF build actually fails. The first suggestion is to denylist those "variable font" files by activating a per-user and command-local fontconfig setting. For further info and backgrounds, please refer to the header comment of scripts/check-variable-font.sh newly added in this commit. Link: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_font Link: [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Noto_CJK_Variable_Fonts Link: [3] https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1157217 Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8734tqsrt7.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: "Иван Иванович" <relect@xxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/1708585803.600323099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Stop suggesting removal of variable-font packages. (Jon) - Rewrite changelog and add a couple of links for reference. (Randy) - Suggest denylisting "variable font" files for XeLaTeX in "make pdfdocs" as a less invasive option. - Simplify message from check-variable-font.sh and expand the header comments of the script. - Add template of fonts.conf for denylisting in the header comments. - Add rules for activating the XeLaTeX only fonts.conf in Documentation/Makefile. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240323120204.155678-1-akiyks@xxxxxxxxx/ Jon, how does the suggestion of denylisting sound to you? For the denylisting to work, $HOME/deny-vf/fontconfig/fonts.conf needs to be created manually. It would be possible to automate this step, but fonts.conf might need adjustments in case "variable font" files to be denied reside somewhere else. Thanks, Akira --- Documentation/Makefile | 7 +- Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty | 9 +- MAINTAINERS | 1 + scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100755 scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index b68f8c816897..a961692baa12 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ BUILDDIR = $(obj)/output PDFLATEX = xelatex LATEXOPTS = -interaction=batchmode -no-shell-escape +# For denylisting "variable font" files +# Can be overridden by setting as an env variable +FONTS_CONF_DENY_VF ?= $(HOME)/deny-vf + ifeq ($(findstring 1, $(KBUILD_VERBOSE)),) SPHINXOPTS += "-q" endif @@ -151,10 +155,11 @@ pdfdocs: else # HAVE_PDFLATEX +pdfdocs: DENY_VF = XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$(FONTS_CONF_DENY_VF) pdfdocs: latexdocs @$(srctree)/scripts/sphinx-pre-install --version-check $(foreach var,$(SPHINXDIRS), \ - $(MAKE) PDFLATEX="$(PDFLATEX)" LATEXOPTS="$(LATEXOPTS)" -C $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/latex || exit; \ + $(MAKE) PDFLATEX="$(PDFLATEX)" LATEXOPTS="$(LATEXOPTS)" $(DENY_VF) -C $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/latex || sh $(srctree)/scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh || exit; \ mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/pdf; \ mv $(subst .tex,.pdf,$(wildcard $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/latex/*.tex)) $(BUILDDIR)/$(var)/pdf/; \ ) diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty index 3092df051c95..d479cfa73658 100644 --- a/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty +++ b/Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc-preamble.sty @@ -215,11 +215,12 @@ due to the lack of suitable font families and/or the texlive-xecjk package. - If you want them, please install ``Noto Sans CJK'' font families - along with the texlive-xecjk package by following instructions from + If you want them, please install non-variable ``Noto Sans CJK'' + font families along with the texlive-xecjk package by following + instructions from \sphinxcode{./scripts/sphinx-pre-install}. - Having optional ``Noto Serif CJK'' font families will improve - the looks of those translations. + Having optional non-variable ``Noto Serif CJK'' font families will + improve the looks of those translations. \end{sphinxadmonition}} \newcommand{\kerneldocEndSC}{} \newcommand{\kerneldocBeginTC}[1]{} diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index aa3b947fb080..3a4768c2f712 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -6406,6 +6406,7 @@ S: Maintained P: Documentation/doc-guide/maintainer-profile.rst T: git git://git.lwn.net/linux.git docs-next F: Documentation/ +F: scripts/check-variable-font.sh F: scripts/documentation-file-ref-check F: scripts/kernel-doc F: scripts/sphinx-pre-install diff --git a/scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh b/scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh new file mode 100755 index 000000000000..12765e54e4f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +# Copyright (C) Akira Yokosawa, 2024 +# +# For "make pdfdocs", reports of build errors of translations.pdf started +# arriving early 2024 [1, 2]. It turned out that Fedora and openSUSE +# tumbleweed have started deploying variable-font [3] format of "Noto CJK" +# fonts [4, 5]. For PDF, a LaTeX package named xeCJK is used for CJK +# (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) pages. xeCJK requires XeLaTeX/XeTeX, which +# does not (and likely never will) understand variable fonts for historical +# reasons. +# +# The build error happens even when both of variable- and non-variable-format +# fonts are found on the build system. To make matters worse, Fedora enlists +# variable "Noto CJK" fonts in the requirements of langpacks-ja, -ko, -zh_CN, +# -zh_TW, etc. Hence developers who have interest in CJK pages are more +# likely to encounter the build errors. +# +# This script is invoked from the error path of "make pdfdocs" and emits +# suggestions if variable-font files of "Noto CJK" fonts are in the list of +# fonts accessible from XeTeX. +# +# Assumption: +# File names are not modified from those of upstream Noto CJK fonts: +# https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/ +# +# References: +# [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8734tqsrt7.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ +# [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1708585803.600323099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ +# [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_font +# [4]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Noto_CJK_Variable_Fonts +# [5]: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1157217 +# +#=========================================================================== +# Workarounds for building translations.pdf +#=========================================================================== +# +# * Denylist "variable font" Noto CJK fonts. +# - Create $HOME/deny-vf/fontconfig/fonts.conf from template below, with +# tweaks if necessary. Remove leading "# ". +# - Path of fontconfig/fonts.conf can be overridden by setting an env +# variable FONTS_CONF_DENY_VF. +# +# * Template: +# ----------------------------------------------------------------- +# <?xml version="1.0"?> +# <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd"> +# <fontconfig> +# <!-- +# Ignore variable-font glob (not to break xetex) +# --> +# <selectfont> +# <rejectfont> +# <!-- +# for Fedora +# --> +# <glob>/usr/share/fonts/google-noto-*-cjk-vf-fonts</glob> +# <!-- +# for openSUSE tumbleweed +# --> +# <glob>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/Noto*CJK*-VF.otf</glob> +# </rejectfont> +# </selectfont> +# </fontconfig> +# ----------------------------------------------------------------- +# +# The denylisting is activated for "make pdfdocs". +# +# * For skipping CJK pages in PDF +# - Uninstall texlive-xecjk. +# Denylisting is not needed in this case. +# +# * For printing CJK pages in PDF +# - Need non-variable "Noto CJK" fonts. +# * Fedora +# - google-noto-sans-cjk-fonts +# - google-noto-serif-cjk-fonts +# * openSUSE tumbleweed +# - Non-variable "Noto CJK" fonts are not available as distro packages +# as of April, 2024. Fetch a set of font files from upstream Noto +# CJK Font released at: +# https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/tree/main/Sans#super-otc +# and at: +# https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/tree/main/Serif#super-otc +# , then uncompress and deploy them. +# - Remember to update fontconfig cache by running fc-cache. +# +# !!! Caution !!! +# Uninstalling "variable font" packages can be dangerous. +# They might be depended upon by other packages important for your work. +# Denylisting should be less invasive, as it is effective only while +# XeLaTeX runs in "make pdfdocs". + +# Default per-user fontconfig path (overridden by env variable) +: ${FONTS_CONF_DENY_VF:=$HOME/deny-vf} + +export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=${FONTS_CONF_DENY_VF} + +vffonts=`fc-list -b | grep -iE 'file: .*noto.*cjk.*-vf' | \ + sed -e 's/\tfile:/ file:/' -e 's/(s)$//' | sort | uniq` + +if [ "x$vffonts" != "x" ] ; then + echo '=============================================================================' + echo 'XeTeX is confused by "variable font" files listed below:' + echo "$vffonts" + echo + echo 'For CJK pages in PDF, they need to be hidden from XeTeX by denylisting.' + echo 'Or, CJK pages can be skipped by uninstalling texlive-xecjk.' + echo + echo 'For more info on denylisting, other options, and variable font, see header' + echo 'comments of scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh.' + echo '=============================================================================' +fi + +# As this script is invoked from Makefile's error path, always error exit +# regardless of whether any variable font is discovered or not. +exit 1 base-commit: 9e192b39a5992d8b730383d57416964b44ea1041 -- 2.34.1
