<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>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<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Zdeněk Wagner</div><div><a href="https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/" target="_blank">https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/</a></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">st 19. 6. 2024 v 12:30 odesílatel Bob Tennent <<a href="mailto:rdtennent@gmail.com">rdtennent@gmail.com</a>> napsal:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">><font size="2">Can a [TUG-downloaded] TeX Live user run tlmgr to install additional <br>
font packages from CTAN, and if so, does it run fc-cache or equivalent <br>
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<font size="2">(I'm using my OS-provided texlive, and tlmgr is non-functional for me.)</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">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. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bob T.<br>
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