On Tuesday 06 April 2004 4:16 am, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The fonts should be put in /usr/share/fonts, and registered through > defoma. BTW, if they are registered through defoma, their location > doesn't matter for defoma and fontconfig, but FHS mandates a > location. [...] > You should start by reading fontconfig's README.Debian, which tries > to summarise this. Thanks for this pointer; I'll go take a peek. =) > defoma is a font registry. If you register your fonts through defoma, > they are made available to both fontconfig and x-ttcidfont-conf (and > other font-using stuff). The purpose of the latter is to provide a > fontpath for legacy X applications that don't use fontconfig. BTW, I noticed that x-ttcidfont-conf has been orphaned for some time: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201376 -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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