[OT] Installing Linux fonts

[Richmond]

On 06/16/2010 06:33 PM, G. Wolfgang Gaich wrote:
> Hello Richmond,
>
> I am pleased to have helped you (is that good english?)

That is a perfect example of the Present Perfect, and you can feel very 
pleased about that.

>
> If you don't want that the user have to use fc-cache, you can give an 
> information, 

This is where your grammar gets problematic . . .  :)

'you can supply information' . . . "information" is a MASS noun like 
'water', 'air' and 'money'.

> that it is necessary to restart the graphical user interface (gnome or 
> kde or...) after the installation of your program. A fc-cache is done 
> automatically when the gui is restarted.

Ahah! That really is fantastic news.

>
> Regards
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
> Am 16.06.2010 17:06, schrieb 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.
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