font installation

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

in many Linux distros fc-cache is not needed after font installation and
can even cause problems because a font visible to one user is not visible
to others. It depends whether fc-cache is invoked by a root or by a normal
user. Nowadays fc-cache is called automatically as root every 5 minutes or
so. If you install a font, just wait a few minutes. I have recently
installed 50 free Armenian fonts and fc-cache was not needed. I have just
copied into a subdirectory of texmf-local/fonts/opentype which is known to
my fontconfig

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/


st 19. 6. 2024 v 12:30 odesílatel Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com> napsal:

> >Can a [TUG-downloaded] TeX Live user run tlmgr to install additional
> font packages from CTAN, and if so, does it run fc-cache or equivalent
> automatically afterwards?
> (I'm using my OS-provided texlive, and tlmgr is non-functional for me.)
>
> Peter:  As tlmgr is non-functional in an OS-provided texlive, it can't be
> used to install fonts.  But a TUG-downloaded TeX Live user can.  And even
> on an OS-provided system, you should be able to install fonts directly from
> CTAN.  Many font packages provide tds archives which make it easy to
> install all the support files in their proper places. Remember to enable
> the relevant Map file and execute updmap-sys or updmap-user. And if you
> want the fonts to be visible to non-TeXLive programs, you'll have to
> configure and execute fc-cache yourself.
>
> Bob T.
>
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