Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> writes: > Keith, > > I just realized that my question originally was different: > > On Mo, 16 Apr 2012, Norbert Preining wrote: >> and texmf trees. I see the fontconfig has an interest (trigger) >> in /usr/share/texmf/fonts, but AFAIS an installation into this directory >> does not change anything, which is not surprising since in all of >> /etc/fonts/ and below nothing about texmf is mentioned (besides two >> dirs in avail.d/30-defoma for tex-gyre and lmodern). > > That means, if I drop files into /u/s/texmf/fonts, the fc-cache is > recreated, but that does *NOT* include fonts in /u/s/texmf/fonts, since > they are not mentioned in any fontconfig configuration file.
Correct. Are there any fonts that we would want fontconfig-using applications to use? > But since fontconfig config files does not mention these dirs, even *IF* > any engine uses fontconfig, it will not find the fonts, at least > as far as I understand. Yup. Easy to check, just use 'fc-list' to see which font files are available for fontconfig applications. -- keith.pack...@intel.com
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