Re: Installing TrueType Fonts (TTF)

[Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 18:30:40 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> My ~/.fonts.conf lists several directories:
> 
> --------------------snip--------------------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>   <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
>   <dir>~/fonts/sourcecodepro</dir>
>   <dir>~/fonts/sourcesanspro</dir>
>   <!-- and some more -->
> </fontconfig>
> --------------------snip--------------------
> 
> Each font family I use, consists of serveral font files, e.g. 6
> files for Adobe SourceCodePro, 13 files for Adobe SourceSansPro,
> etc.  To keep things clear I simply don't want to put all these
> files into one single directory,

Note that <dir>~/fonts</dir> would be sufficient here.
For your own convenience you can put your fonts in any sub- or
sub-sub-directory and they will still be seen.

> neither into ~/.fonts (for a single user) nor into
> /usr/local/share/fonts (for all local users).

Under these, too, you can create any directory structure you like,
without having to specify it in ~/.fonts.conf.
Not sure why you prefer ~/fonts over one of these, but never mind,
it's not that important.