Re: getting fc-list to see gsfonts

[Julien Rioux]

On 11/09/2013 2:38 PM, Mark Polesky wrote:
> Julien Rioux wrote:
> > > But now I'm curious, how do I get fc-list to "see" the
> > > fonts in the gsfonts directory?
> >
> > Looks like you have to run fc-cache to update the
> > database. Something like: sudo fc-cache -fsv
>
> Julien and David,
>
> I'll start by reiterating that my build now works fine, as
> long as I do:
>
>    ../configure --with-ncsb-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/
>
> So, I have a successful workaround.  And yes David, I
> manually applied Julien's patch before he pushed it.  Now
> I'm simply curious to see how I can get fc-list to see the
> fonts.  Julien, I tried both of these:
>
>    sudo fc-cache -fsv
>    sudo fc-cache -fsv /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/
>
> With both commands, I get output that contains this:
>
>    /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache
>    contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
>    /var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
>    fc-cache: succeeded
>
> And yet
>
>    fc-list | grep entury
>
> returns nothing, even after rebooting.

I have the same problem (fc database not updating). I'm not sure how to 
update this fc-list stuff, but it seemed to me that fc-cache is the 
command we want to use for it, though, it doesn't seem to work here either.

> Julien, I'd like to make a suggestion.  In the error
> message, I think it would be far more helpful if instead of
> this
>
>    or use --with-ncsb-dir
>
> it said something like this
>
>    or use `configure --with-ncsb-dir=PATH_TO_GSFONTS_DIR'
>
> The point is that it is not at all intuitive to know that
> gsfonts is the source of the New Century Schoolbook files.

Well, it's not clear that gsfonts is the correct directory for everyone.

Cheers,
Julien