On 28/07/15 14:06, Ralf Mattes wrote: > No, this is ba advice: anything under /usr/ is owned and managed by the > system/vendor > (on linux most likely by the system's package manager). The system is free to > (and often will) > remove/overwrite these files. > User/Admin installs should be put into the /usr/local/ subtree. > So, to install custom fonts for all users of the system, copy them into > /usr/local/share/fonts. > On systems using fontconfig (pretty much all distros by now) you can also > place the fonts > in the ~/.fonts directory. > To see a list of all fonts available to fontconfig run: > fc-list > This will also show the path where a font was found (sometimes usefull when a > font > is installed in more than one version).
Thanks. I'll move that folder across. But that's why I created a specific folder for Windows fonts :-) > >> > One reboot later, all those windows fonts were available to my linux >> > programs. > You never need to reboot linux to update the font information! > If the newly installed font really doesn't show up with fc-list (it should) > you > can run 'fc-cache -f -v' I believe I did ... and it didn't work ... Certainly I followed the advice of a couple of web pages which certainly mentioned something along those lines ... I knew it *shouldn't* be necessary to reboot, but the correct incantation eluded me. Anyways, my system is a home workstation which gets shut down every (well almost every) night, so one reboot more or less doesn't matter :-) Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
