Re: Why -dshow-available-fonts doesn't list "Times Italic"

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

2007/3/16, Trevor Bača <address@hidden>:

> Unfortunately I just don't know much of anything, really, about font
> management on my operating system; it's just a shielded resource in
> most applications other that Lily.
>
> Does anyone see an obviously missing directory in the above output
> that would explain why I'm getting mostly regular style fonts instead
> of italic and bold?


Mac uses something called dfonts, which mean that all 4 versions of
the font come inside one file.  Lily will unpack the right font from
the dfont, but fontconfig doesn't look inside them.

Solution: use fondu to extract fonts to separate .ttfs yourself, and
put them in the ~/.fonts directory.


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