font installation

[Peter Flynn]

On 19/06/2024 23:12, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> fc-cache is not called from cron, fontconfig does it itself via triggers 
> as Norbert wrote. 

Ah, right, thanks. On this system, installing a TT/OT font by 
right-clicking and picking Open With > Fonts installs the font into 
~/.local/share/fonts. The font works in LibreOffice and in XeLaTeX.

> XeTeX is somewhat special, it can use all system fonts 
> without any Map file. 

Ideal, that's what I had concluded.

But if users get non-TL Type 1 fonts from elsewhere, they will still 
need to use fontinst and go through the afm2tfm and vp2vf route and 
create the Map file; or can XeLaTeX also use .pfb files without it?

> Sometimes it may be difficult to guess the right name 
> but in this case fc-match and otfinfo help.

There doesn't appear to be any caseless matching in fc-match or fc-list 
or have I missed it? Easy enough to use grep -i

What do people on Windows do without these utilities? I assume they 
exist on Macs.

Peter