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#1 2014-01-11 16:54:01
- ezzetabi
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Woff fonts? Do arch manages them? Where?
After far too much time (sorry) I updated my package in the aur, inside are a new (to me at least) kind of font, the "woff" format.
At the moment I kept only the .otf format, but I was wondering if archlinux manages this format and in what directory.
I expect /usr/share/fonts/WOFF, but I would like to be sure.
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#2 2014-01-11 17:08:37
- Trilby
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Re: Woff fonts? Do arch manages them? Where?
I was wondering if archlinux manages this format and in what directory.
What do you mean by managing the font? You can put the fonts *anywhere* as long as the path is included in a FontPath for X. But no FontPaths are "managed" by archlinux itself, these paths need to be in a xorg.conf file. It would be good to keep them in /usr/share/fonts/<something>/*, and WOFF seems a good a directory as anything.
You could also distribute a 21-woff_fonts.conf or some such that will be installed to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ which would include this FontPath, but generally this is up to the user to do.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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#3 2014-01-12 01:56:43
- vmfn
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Re: Woff fonts? Do arch manages them? Where?
I could be wrong, but .woff fonts are webfonts to be used by websites, in CSS. I think X will not use this format directly on desktop applications. You can convert it to a suitable format like .ttf or .otf
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