[OT] Installing Linux fonts

[Richmond]

On 06/13/2010 01:09 AM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote:
> Hello Richmond,
>
> I tested to use all installed fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 with rev. No problem.
>
> With
>
> set the textfont of fld "/field/" to "/fontname/"
>
> I can use all available fonts.
>
> Only the function fontnames() does not return all the fonts.
>
> But you can get a list of fontnames with
>
> put shell("fc-list") into tTempFontsList
> set the itemdel to ":"
> repeat for each line tL in tTempFontsList
>    set the itemdel to ":"
>    put item 1 of tL into tL2
>    set the itemdel to ","
>    put item 1 of tL2 & cr after tFontsList
> end repeat
> delete char -1 of tFontsList
>
>
> If you want to install a user font then copy it into 
> /home/<user>/.fonts/truetype/
> and in console type:
>
> >  sudo fc-cache
>
> Now you can use that font with rev.
>
Thanks Wolfgang! I just tried your recipe and it really solves all my 
problems
(and I hope that Peter will feel that this is a suitable 'stop gap').

My only grumble is that I have to expect end-users to be proficient with
the terminal for sudo fc-cache. Unfortunately, as every end user has 
adifferent
password there is no way to build this into a stack.