On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Tom Davies wrote:
It's a bit weird to have to keep copies of fonts in several different places. I have a feeling that short-cuts (="links" in linux and perhaps Mac?) mightwork well but it's still weird and inconvenient.
Tom, I've not needed to do this with WordPerfect/linux, Abiword, or OpenOffice.org. Yes, it is strange. Links in linux are not equivalent to Microsoft shortcuts. The latter are icons on the root window, but I have no idea what they do behind the scenes. The default for link creation is a hard link; that is, an actual copy of the file at a new location. Most of the time a soft link does the job. Those are pointers to the actual file so there's only one copy on the system. I'm not going to dig into the code and try to learn why the application does not pick up the LHS default location of /usr/share/fonts. Perhaps it's mimicing a single-user application (which is what I assume Microsoft Office is) so it wants everything local to the user invoking it. Shrug. A minor PITA for maintenance, but at least I can now access all the fonts on my system. Regards, Rich -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
