Indexing fonts

[Peter Flynn]

On 16/12/2022 11:47, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
>> Me? I'm running Mint, but that's not relevant. I need to document this for
> 
> Mint == Ubuntu, and it **is** relevant. 

Sorry, I expressed that badly. What I meant was that it's not relevant 
that *I* am running Mint, because I am trying to document this for all 
users on any OS.

> 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 do :-) I am just trying to find out what set of fonts a new user of a 
new installation (TL, Deb, Mac, Win) can expect to use immediately. 
Hebert Voß has posted a useful list of those which will work because 
there are packages supporting them.

>> 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.

OK, thanks.

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

In the present context I deal only with the single user.

Peter