On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:08:08 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Donn wrote: > > > Forgive any dumb-a$$ery on my part, but it's my understanding that > > (most modern) distros will pick up fonts dropped into ~/.fonts - > > could you not put your .atm .pb (and company) files in there and run > > Lyx again? > > Not as far as I know. These fonts have been installed for a decade > and LyX/LaTeX are not aware of them. I believe one must go through the > font installation guide, step-by-step, to install them so LaTeX knows > they're there. > > Similarly, all the installed fonts are not automagically visible to > the GIMP, either. Do you have a system where fc-cache is installed? (this maintains the font list more or less automatically). Else it is necessary to rebuild the font indexes in each font directory for programs to find them. John
