First off - I can't believe I'm the only person having this trouble, but I couldn't find any useable information about this on the Net.
Well, I'm trying to install a collection of TTF fonts on my Debian system. The strange thing is that I've managed it once but can't reproduce the way I did it. I added an appropriately named subdirectory under /usr/share/fonts/truetype in which I placed the fonts. Then, after failing to get my head around a single font-related manpage I ran a few of the scripts and programs I found mentioned and all of a sudden I could use the fonts. Then I tried it a again, about one hour later. After an hour's worth of failing completely, I gave up. Of all the font-related manpages, I found defoma-user's the most enlightening. It consists of a single line that says: "I have no idea what defoma-user does just yet. I'm working on it.." Can anybody point me to some intelligeble information on this subject? The way I think this /should/ work is: 1. Place new fonts into some specific directory or a subdirectory thereof 2. Run some script that scans the fonts directory tree to build some database/cache (actually, fc-cache seems to do just that. But I can't see any useful result.) 3. Possibly restart X 4. Use the fonts The fact that there seems to be no mechanism that works just like that indicates that font management under X is infintely more complicated than I can begin to fathom. Why is that? Thanks, --Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
