These types of font are already recognised by your
computer, so you just install them in the normal way for your
computer system (usually double-click or right-click on the
font file and select from the
menu).
On Windows and Apple Macintosh OS Xsystems, the
fonts are then available immediately; on UNIX &
GNU/Linux systems you must run the
FontConfig utility
fc-cache to give XƎLATEX
fast-loading access to all the fonts you have installed. Run
the program like this:
fc-cache -fv
It can take several minutes, especially if you have a lot
of fonts. Once it has finished, you can search the font
database with the fc-list
utility and then use the grep command to refine the search
for the font name or part, eg:
$ fc-list|grep -i comic|sort /home/peter/texmf/fonts/truetype/
windows/comicbd.ttf: Comic Sans MS:style=Bold
windows/comici.ttf: Comic Sans MS:style=Italic
windows/comic.ttf: Comic Sans MS:style=Regular
windows/comicz.ttf: Comic Sans MS:style=BoldItalic ...
You can then see the exact font name to use in your
documents, eg
\usepackage{fontspec} \setsansfont{Comic Sans MS}B.2.1 Font management
If you want to keep your additional fonts in several
different locations, you will need to tell
FontConfig where to look. You may
install fonts a ) in your Personal TEX
Directory; b ) in the system’s shared folder; or c ) in your TEX distribution’s shared tree. You should never
install fonts in your TEX distribution’s master tree, as
this will get overwritten when you upgrade, whereas the
shared tree is not touched.
On UNIX & GNU/Linux systems
there are already .conf font
configuration files in
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/ for the fonts
that come with the installation. You can create one or more
configuration files for the installation locations you have
used. Some examples are shown in
Figure B.1 below: the font names shown are just
suggestions: numbering them lets you group them
together.
Figure B.1: Configurations for TrueType and OpenType fonts on
UNIX & GNU/Linux systems
eg file
07-personal.conf
<?xml
version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM
"fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>
<dir>/home/peter/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/home/peter/texmf/fonts/truetype</dir>
</fontconfig>
Fonts installed in the system’s shared
folder
eg file
08-system.conf
<?xml
version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM
"fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype</dir>
</fontconfig>
Fonts installed in the shared folders of a
TEX distribution
eg file
09-texlive.conf
<?xml
version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM
"fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/texlive/2022/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/truetype</dir>
</fontconfig>
Running fc-cache again will
now index all the extra directories you have given.
