Re: How to announce user installed fonts on MacOS X?

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2011-10-13 um 09:23 schrieb Alexander Kobel:

> Dear all,
> I switched back from Linux to OS X on one of my machines recently,  
> and now I'm puzzled how to use user-installed fonts with LilyPond.
>
> I did the usual thing: grab a .ttf (Gentium in this case), double- 
> click (opens in FontBook.app), click "install". The font file is  
> copied to $HOME/Library/Fonts, and available in Mac applications.  
> However, no luck in LilyPond.
> After some googling, I tried to delete the $HOME/.lilypond- 
> fonts.cache-2 directory and have Lily rebuild the cache, but to no  
> avail. (BTW, why "-2" at the end?)
>
> I suppose I can just copy the font files to the system library / 
> Library/Fonts, but there must be a proper way to announce the user  
> directory to pango/fontconfig/LilyPond/whatever, right? Any ideas?

You’re looking for
~/.fonts.conf
and
fc-cache (fontconfig rebuild cache tool)

My .fonts.conf looks like
"""
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<cache>~/.fonts.cache-1</cache>

<dir>/System/Library/Fonts</dir>
<dir>/Library/Fonts</dir>
<dir>~/Library/Fonts</dir>
<dir>~/FontExplorer\ X/Font\ Library</dir>
<dir>/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
"""

fc-cache is in LilyPond.app:
/ApplicationsLilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/fc-cache

Don't know if that will work - I use fc-cache installed with MacPorts,  
and I don’t really know how LilyPond's fc interacts with my config,  
but a lot of fonts are found and work.


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