adding fonts

[Nathan Howell]

squareyes wrote:
> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> 
>> Just setting things up, and I have several questions the answers to 
>> which I could not find within Ubuntu. Perhaps someone can help.
>>
>> I have the Hebrew language selected among languages, and a Hebrew 
>> keyboard link on the panel, but I don't have the fonts I am accustomed 
>> to using. In fact there seem to be large numbers of Arabic and Hindi 
>> fonts, but not the ones I want for Hebrew and European languages. I 
>> have TT fonts aplenty from Windows, but how do I get them into use by 
>> the system?
>>
>> Thanks in advance, Avraham
>>
> HI Avraham,
> try
> 
> Copy the fonts to the fonts folder /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and
> run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'.
> Hope this helps,
> Take Care
> Winton

You don't need to do that... just put them in ~/.fonts and run fc-cache.

Nathan