[XeTeX] (Off-topic ?) Installing OpenType fonts on linux

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> I know this question isn't strictly related to XeTeX, but can anyone give me
> some good hints (url for howtos, name of useful software, etc.) about
> installing fonts on Linux ?

  This is absolutely related to XeTeX, on the contrary, as “installing a
font” on Linux doesn't make much sense, generally speaking.  As far as
XeTeX is concerned, though, this means installing it for fontconfig, so:

	1. Put your fonts in ~/.fontconfig
	2. Run fc-cache
	3. Look at the output of fc-list for the complete list

  Of course, you should look at the fontconfig documentation for more
details; in particular, you may want to install the fonts system-wide in
/usr/local/share/fonts instead of your home directory (the exact list of
directories fontconfig knows about is in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, and on
Debian you can add your own local configuration file local.conf
alongside with it).

	Arthur