macOS Source Code Pro font installation step

[ylluminate]

For Step 3 regarding installing Source Code Pro, it might be nice to provide macOS users a quick incantation to get the font:

brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-source-code-pro

2021 UPDATE:

Can use the following for homebrew:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install --cask font-source-code-pro

But I would prefer to use a MacPorts options since we're eliminating homebrew from our workflow entirely. For now we're just manually installing fonts vs homebrew.

[nikolaiam]

Good idea! I included your suggestion in a PR moving the installation instructions from the readme to the beginners tutorial: #8217

[syl20bnr]

@nikolaiam could you submit the change on the README.md file directly instead ?

[nikolaiam]

Done in #8752!

[Blaisorblade]

The PR was cherry-picked into the develop branch (though it's somehow not yet in master, which would be nice, not sure what the branch model is). Should this issue be closed?

[lambdamusic]

These days the right commands are

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew cask install font-source-code-pro

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[ylluminate]

So close, yet so far away ;)

[mukherjeea]

for those who are listening to this in 2020, commands are as follows

$brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
$brew install font-source-code-pro

[duianto]

It looks like brew cask <command> was:

• deprecated on 2020-12-01
• disabled on 2020-12-21

in favor of brew <command> --cask

sources:
Homebrew/discussions#340 (comment)
ansible-collections/community.general#1524 (comment)

Can someone with knowledge about how brew and cask works, open a PR that updates the readme instructions:
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#using-cask
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#install-source-code-pro-font

[sshine]

@ylluminate: Could you perhaps edit your original post and update the commands?

This would save a few seconds overall. :)

[duianto]

The font installation instructions:
https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/develop/README.md#install-source-code-pro-font

Have just been updated to list both the new and old syntax:
Update README.md with new Cask syntax #14576

[ylluminate]

@sshine updated as you requested, but would like to see a MacPorts option since we've needed to eliminate homebrew from our workflow for various reasons.

[lebensterben]

how to install a font is quite out of scope.

closing.