Installing and Uninstalling TTF Fonts

[Nathan Sivin]

I was surprised to find nothing about installing and--equally 
important--uninstalling fonts in previous posts and various manuals, 
including the _OpenOffice 2.0 Writer Guide._ Some posts about 
installation in other Linux distributions give the impression that 
installing is a good bit more complicated than just putting fonts in the 
font directory.

Specifically, I want to get rid of most of the TTF fonts that load 
automatically when I fire up Writer, since more than half seem to be for 
Indian and other languages that I don't read. I also want to install the 
TTF fonts that I use in Windows on the same dual-booting computer--not 
the "core fonts," but a few less boring ones such as Palatino Linotype, 
my default serif font, and Simsun, the Unicode font that I use for 
Chinese and Japanese.

Has anyone recorded step-by-step instructions for installing and 
uninstalling TTF (and TTC) fonts? I notice, by the way, that in Ubuntu a 
font family is stored in its own folder, but no special procedure is 
needed to give Writer access to all the individual fonts in the folder.

Thanks and cheers,
-- 
Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304
(215) 898-7454
nsivin at sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/