Install Fonts

[Seth Hasani]

On 4/15/07, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  On Sun, 2007-15-04 at 00:51 -0400, Seth Hasani wrote:
>
> Edit the file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (all users) or ~/.fonts.conf (youraccount only) and insert the line:
>
>        <dir>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-microsoft</dir>
>
>   Make sure that line is somewhere in between the opening <fontconfig>and closing </fontconfig> tags in that file.
>
>
> I've never had to edit fonts.conf (didn't even know it existed!) and I've
> installed literally thousands of fonts.  All I ever did was ran fc-cache -v
> -f and let it find everything.  It had no problems when I added fonts in new
> directories, moved fonts around between directories, etc.
>


You are correct. The top level /usr/share/fonts is already watched by
fontconfig in the default /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. That <dir> entry wasnt
necessary since fc will search recursively down to the bottom of the tree.


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