Re: using manually installed fonts on OSX

[Kevin Patrick Barry]

Thanks for the response. I haven't been home to use my OSX machine,
but I will try when I do.  In the meantime I figured out what the
problem seems to be on Ubuntu.  At some point in the past
user-installed fonts were put in a folder called ~/.fonts, but in more
recent versions of Ubuntu they are put in ~/.local/share/fonts.
Fontconfig doesn't list this locations in fonts.conf (and I don't know
how to make it look there), so I just manually created the old
~/.fonts folder and copied the user-installed fonts into it and they
are now available in LilyPond.

On 3 March 2014 09:22, Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 2014-03-03 um 15:15 schrieb Kevin Patrick Barry <address@hidden>:
>
>>> Do you find an entry for Cardo in the list from
>>> lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x
>>> ?
>>> Maybe it's called Cardo-Regular or the like.
>>
>> Cardo doesn't appear anywhere in the list, but I can use it just fine
>> in other programs.
>>
>> I tried it today on my Ubuntu machine and experienced the same
>> problem. I tried running fc-cache -f and then deleting the lilypond
>> font cache, but even still it doesn't appear as an option. Also I
>> can't find it anywhere on my machine, not in the usual folders
>> (/usr/share/fonts, /usr/local/share/fonts, ~/.fonts - the last one
>> doesn't even exist on my system), which makes me wonder where the
>> system put it at all. Normal file searches yield nothing.
>
> Ok, check your ~/.fonts.conf (might be also ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf), 
> mine on OSX looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <!-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file for local customizations -->
> <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>
> <dir>~/Library/texmf/tex</dir>
> </fontconfig>
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