[tex-live] Unicode font support

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/5/2 Timothy Legg <tim_legg_iowa at yahoo.com>:
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> Thanks to all whom helped me produce my first DVI file since I left college years ago!
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> I just have a minor issue.  I am trying to produce a document that is not in English and, other than punctuation, has no Latin characters.  Need I mention, the document was a few hundred pages shorter than I had expected.
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> I have a TTF file that has the characters I want to have.
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> I found some directories with TTF files in them,
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> for example:
> ./2008/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fonetika/
> ./2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/hoekwater/lmextra/
> ./2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/belleek/
> ./2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/itrans/
> ./2008/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/arkandis/libris/
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> So I can copy the file into one of these directories, but how would I ensure that it will find/use it?
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You should not add your files to texmf-dist, they will be lost in the
next release of TeX Live. Put the fonts to a suitable subdirectory in
texmf-local/fonts/truetype (you will have to create such a directory)
and then run mktexlsr.

> Tim Legg
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