[tex-live] Setting of TTFONTS variable?

[Frank Küster]

Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

> Frank � wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> currently texmf.in specifies
>>
>> TTFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/truetype//
>>
>> Some Debian packages want to use system truetype fonts installed below
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype.  For example, the latex-hangul-ucs package
>> (see http://faq.ktug.or.kr/faq/Hangul-ucs) adds
>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts// to that path - and we were wondering
>> why we should not simply add /usr/share/fonts/truetype// itself?
>>   
> this is what $OSFONTDIR is meant for

Ah, you are right.  I skipped the recent discussion about OSFONTDIR
because it seemed so Windows-centric.  I've re-read the thread now, and
I think I understand.

Regards, Frank

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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)