Update Symbols-only fonts for #249 and #429

[polyzen]

Description

Updated Symbols-only fonts for #249 and #429

Requirements / Checklist

• Read the Contributing Guidelines
• Read or at least glanced at the FAQ
• Read or at least glanced at the Wiki

Any background context you can provide?

b9c842d#commitcomment-37240254

[polyzen]

Didn't test this properly. Seems I messed something up. 🤔

[polyzen]

Seems this needs to be changed to use the new Symbols Template {1000,2048} em.ttf files.

[ryanoasis]

Thanks this is definitely an oversight on the last release. To be honest I'm not sure why I had to use those template files but yeah there probably was some reason to get the symbol only fonts to generate and turn out correctly.

Did that fix what you referred to as being messed up?

I haven't had a chance to pull down the MR yet...

[polyzen]

Thanks this is definitely an oversight on the last release. To be honest I'm not sure why I had to use those template files but yeah there probably was some reason to get the symbol only fonts to generate and turn out correctly.

Did that fix what you referred to as being messed up?

With the current commands listed there, the symbols were all lower (in the y axis) than they should be ┐('～`；)┌. They generated properly with:

./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/Symbols\ Template\ 1000\ em.ttf
./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/Symbols\ Template\ 2048\ em.ttf

I haven't had a chance to pull down the MR yet...

[ryanoasis]

Ah okay cool, so good then for now? Let me know if you need anything! Thanks.

[polyzen]

Looks good to me, but you may want to change the commands in the Release Workflow doc.

[polyzen]

Just a heads up, for some reason the 1000 em font doesn't want to work for me today.

[polyzen]

No idea why it's working again, but it is.

[ryanoasis]

so to summarize:

new/correct/working:

./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/Symbols\ Template\ 1000\ em.ttf
./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/Symbols\ Template\ 2048\ em.ttf

old/incorrect:

./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/NerdFontsSymbols\ 1000\ EM\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete\ Blank.sfd
./font-patcher -ext ttf -out ./src/glyphs/ --complete ./src/glyphs/NerdFontsSymbols\ 2048\ EM\ Nerd\ Font\ Complete\ Blank.sfd

I have updated the wiki as well: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/Release-Workflow#ad-hoc-updating-of-the-glyph-only-fonts

Thanks!

[polyzen]

Added a commit that fixes this overlap issue in status bars:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66212

[ryanoasis]

Cool, I think we could likely have this in for the next release/rebuild of all fonts if all looks good