Indexing fonts

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Peter,

> Me? I'm running Mint, but that's not relevant. I need to document this for

Mint == Ubuntu, and it **is** relevant. The post-installation procedure
on upstream TeX Live and Debian(-related) is different, and thus also
the set of available fonts. Please, trust me ... I have packaged TeX
Live for Debian (and thus Ubuntu and thus Mint), as well as I know a bit
about upstream, too.

> There appears to be a GUI routine called Font Manager which I assume does

Font Manager is a separate application, that manage fonts by letting the
user add font directories. All fonts activated via Font Manager are only
available via user-specific setups, that is (as on my system):
          $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/conf.d
          $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf
          ~/.fonts.conf.d
          ~/.fonts.conf
(where XDG_CONFIG_HOME is normally ~/.config/)

So that means, it really depends on the single user versus multi user
install, and many other factors.

> a user has bought or downloaded. Or maybe no-one has ever done this, given
> that fc-cache can do it almost trivially.

The two are independent. Font Manager manages entries in various
fontconfig configuration files in the user home directory (see above).
fc-cache then reads these configuration files and creates the actual
cache.

All the best

Norbert

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